“We will do all that we can, with our own resources and through funding programs to offer assistance [to earthquake victims],” Foreign Minister George Papandreou told a press conference, after meeting with visiting Afghan Deputy Prime Minister for Women’s Affairs Sima Samar.

A quake registering 5.9 on the Richter scale devastated villages in Afghanistan’s northern Hindu Kush mountains, killing 1,800 people and leaving another 10,000 homeless, initial reports said.

Papandreou said Greece could send members of its fire brigade rescue team (EMAK), as well as tents and other humanitarian aid. The two ministers also discussed Greek funding for 5,000 girls to attend school in Afghanistan, as well as vocational training for Afghan refugees in Greece.

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