Most of the amount will be used to support the construction of roads and other infrastructure in Port au Prince and other locations that were affected by the earthquake of Jan.100012, which killed over 250,000 people.
The signing of the agreements made in the Haitian National Palace, where the Haitian President Rene Preval thanked the assistance given by the EU and said that the new agreements will be very helpful for the reconstruction of his country, as recorded DPA news agency.
Piebalgs, meanwhile, said the European Union wants the aid currently being provided to Haiti to be “effective and visible” , while expressing that “all European citizens are committed to the reconstruction of Haiti.”
Among the projects to be developed is the construction of the road from Port au Prince to Cap Haitian and in support to municipalities and civil society.
In addition to the signature of the agreements, Piebalgs attended the opening of a play in which a school will be built in Port-au-Prince European resources.
The official will be in Haiti for two days as part of which will visit other infrastructure construction and some areas where refuge for some of the more than 1 3 million left by the earthquake victims.
Piebalgs arrived in Port-au-Prince after a brief visit to the Dominican Republic, where said Thursday that the bloc allocated 47.5 million euros to carry out projects in Haiti and the Dominican-Haitian border.
“Rebuilding Haiti is a priority for the European Union,” he told a news conference in Santo Domingo.
In the Dominican capital, the commissioner also said the payment to the EU will cooperate with the reconstruction of Haiti takes place in the framework of the agreements reached last March during the international conference New York, in which the bloc pledged to donate $ 1,600 million.
In addition to infrastructure projects, the European Union wants to work in other social projects that reach across the island of Spanish, the seat Dominican Republic and Haiti. (Telam) dc-jab23/04/2010 19:39