Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani has donated $3 million to the United States in solidarity with the victims of last month's terror attacks, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Sheikh Hamad donated $1 million to the World Trade Center relief fund, $1 million to the families of firemen killed when the center's towers collapsed and $1 million to the Cornell University hospital, "which has played a great role in the aftermath of the attacks," Al-Raya said.
The Qatari leader, who currently chairs the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), arrived in the United States on Monday on a five-day working visit for talks on the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.
OIC foreign ministers are due to meet in Doha October 10 to coordinate their stands in the wake of the atrocities -- DOHA (AFP)
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