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  • Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake > Donors > Government: Donations made by governments around the world in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the consequent tsunami.
  • Tsunami > International aid packages: Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster.

    The following is a list of contributions pledged by countries, (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT) compiled from reports by Reuters bureaux and United Nations agencies.

    There are packages coming from international Aid agencies like the IMF, The Red Cross, UNEP, UNICEF and WHO.

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Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake > Donors > Government USD 627,000<ref name = "TerraDaily-Asia"/> USD 950M
Tsunami > International aid packages <a href=/country/ir>Iran</a>, where some 31,000 people were killed in the southern city of Bam exactly a year before the <a href=/region/ASI>Asian</a> disaster, would also do what it could to help, <a href=/encyclopedia/President-of-the-United-States>President</a> Mohammad Khatami said. $350m in <a href=/cat/Government>government</a> donations, plus <a href=/cat/Military>military</a> assistance involving 12,600 personnel, 21 ships, 14 cargo planes and more than 90 helicopters. Around $200m of private donations are also pouring in, with $120m donated to the US <a href=/graph-T/mil_bra>branches</a> of the Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children, and to <a href=/encyclopedia/Catholicism>Catholic</a> Relief Services.

SOURCES: BBC, Alert net by Reuters, Sify news and The Age

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