Friday, December 9, 2011

ARTICLE - 10 MILLION EUROS - GOV'T MINISTRIES

10 MILLION EUROS FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF MINISTRIES
(Haiti Libre) -

On November 14th, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religious Affairs, Laurent Lamothe, announced in the presence of Benois Bazin, Head of the Infrastructure Section of the Delegation of the European Union in Haiti and Price Pady, the national authorising officer of the European Development Fund, a donation of €10 million for Haiti, for the reconstruction of damaged or destroyed ministries on January 12, 2010.

"I thank the EU for being with us today, and the National Authorising Officer for this visit aimed at helping the Haitian government in the reconstruction of our ministries," declared the chancellor. "We had a very good meeting today with the charge d'affaires of the European Union, as part of the reconstruction of the Ministry Foreign Affairs, Ministry of TPTC and the office of the authorizing officer. This is a project valued at about 10 million euros, of which about 3 million is for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

We will soon launch the tender to begin the reconstruction [...] because it is time to give the state the means to work well,... we are in a difficult situation in the premises we are in. We thank once again the Chargé d'affaires for working closely with us, and we appreciate the cooperation and the collaboration of the European Union with its assistance to Haiti."

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