Netherlands to Donate 676,000 Dollars in Aid to Tajikistan

Excerpt from report by privately-owned Tajik Avesta website on 21 February

Dushanbe, 21 February: The Netherlands intends to provide aid worth 676,000 dollars to Tajikistan, the press release circulated by the Dutch embassy in Astana [capital of Kazakhstan] has said.

The funds allocated by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands will be channelled to Tajikistan via UNICEF (The United Nations Children’s Fund).

The funds will be used to support the activities of the UNICEF that is providing humanitarian aid to people of Tajikistan, the press release says.

These funds will be used to provide over a million Tajik people, suffering from the energy crisis, with drinking water, as well as with public health and hygiene goods.

[Passage omitted: schools will be provided with aid; UNICEF asked the world community to donate 2.5m dollars in humanitarian aid to Tajikistan]

Originally published by Avesta website, Dushanbe, in Russian 0531 21 Feb 08.

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