28/12/06 - Cape Verde receives 210 million escudo donation from China PDF Print E-mail
ImageMinister of Foreign Affairs Victor Borges (photo) will sign a protocol this morning with the ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in Cape Verde, by which the China will grant Cape Verde a donation of approximately 210 million escudos. China will grant Cape Verde a donation of some 210 million escudos (approximately 2.4 million US dollars), which will be used to finance projects to be decided by the governments of the two countries. According to a diplomatic source, this donation is unrelated to the construction of the new maternity ward and consultation center at Praia’s Agostinho Neto Hospital, which will begin in the second trimester of 2007 and will be financed by Beijing.

The architectural projects for the two new hospital facilities were discussed in Beijing by an engineer who represented Cape Verde in a colloquium on infrastructures and construction techniques organized by China and aimed at the world’s Portuguese-speaking countries.

Following the signing of the donation protocol, Victor Borges will speak to the press regarding the results of the conference of Foreign Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States, which took place on December 20 in Burkina Faso and during which the organization accepted the principle that Cape Verde, as the community’s only island nation, could benefit from a special statute within the regional body.

 

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