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Article: EU provides over half of world's official development assistance: envoy
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- November 19, 2004
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EU provides over half of world's official development assistance:
envoy
KAMPALA, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- EU head of mission in Uganda Sigurd
Illing said here Friday that the European Union has provided more
than 50 percent of the world's official development assistance (ODA).
Addressing the EU-Uganda media workshop in Kampala, Illing said,
"The EU has set its development efforts firmly in the international
development agenda and is working with others to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals, which centers on poverty reduction."
Illing told the workshop that the EU signed the Cotonou agreement
in 2000 which provides the framework for a 20-year partnership for
development with 77 African, ...