MEXICO, September 5 (RIA Novosti, Mikhail Belyat) - Cuba has reiterated its offer to provide humanitarian aid to the U.S. in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Cuban Leader Fidel Castro said Sunday evening on national television.
Cuba made its first offer of aid last Friday through diplomatic channels, but received no answer from the U.S.
Cuba is offering to send a medical team of 1,100 specialists to the stricken area, with medicine and first aid equipment.
The contingent includes doctors and paramedics with knowledge of English and experience in extreme conditions. The first team of doctors arrived Saturday morning at Havana International Airport, ready to fly to any point in the southern U.S. at the request of U.S. authorities.
"In offering its help, Cuba is not placing any conditions. We do not demand a lifting of the economic embargo, or payment for aid provided. It is a gesture of solidarity with the people of the U.S., with those Americans who are in trouble. Everything now depends on the U.S. government," Castro said.
