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> To: The 95 countries that helped Katrina victims!

11 September 2005, 01:28

This is how we thank our friends??

"Since last Saturday we have been waiting for permission to fly into the United States but so far we haven’t got any response,"

"The only answer we get is that our request (to fly) has been suspended until further notice," he said.

"We made the offer right after the hurricane and since then we haven’t had any replies," he said. "Of course, they were polite and nice (...) and we understand it takes a lot of time to sort through all these offers."

"All we can do is wait," Andreas Stauffer, of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), said

Grumblings as Some Countries Left Hanging After Offering Katrina Aid