New Delhi: France today condoled the loss of
lives in the cloudburst in Leh in Jammu and Kashmir and
offered help if India wishes so.
"It is with great grief that I have come to learn of the
terrible toll taken by the flash floods in Ladakh: the latest
estimates cite 150 dead and 400 missing," French Foreign
Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a statement.
"In these painful circumstances, I would like to express
France's solidarity with the Indian people and authorities and
would convey my condolences to the families and near and dear
ones of the victims," he said in a statement released by the
French Embassy here.
Kouchner said it is in this spirit of solidarity and in a
European framework that France will consider any request for
aid that the Indian Government may wish to make.
-PTI
First Published: Monday, August 09, 2010, 21:32