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PARIS: France is preparing to urgently dispatch aid to quake-struck Haiti, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Wednesday.
Once news of the quake was received the ministry's crisis centre "was immediately activated... to mobilize and dispatch without delay urgent aid to Port-au-Prince," Kouchner said in a statement.
No details on the aid or when it would depart were provided.
"In these dramatic moments, France expresses its complete solidarity with the Republic of Haiti and... solidarity and sympathy with the Haitian people," said the minister.
A huge quake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation on Tuesday near the capital Port-au-Prince, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic.
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