EU GRANTS TO GEORGIA: 351 MN EURO WITHIN 11 YEARS

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TBILISI, August 30 (RIA Novosti) - European Union aid to Georgia for 1992 into last year amounted to 351 million Euro, says a paper the European Commission is offering to sum up EU-Georgian partnership for the eleven years. The information reached Novosti/Georgia news agency from the Georgian office of the Commission.

Target grants were made to implement ten programmes in several fields. The TACIS programme alone accounted for 84 million Euro. The ECHO humanitarian assistance programme brought a similar sum. 17.5 million was allocated for conflict zone infrastructural rehabilitation. The FEOGA food aid programme accounted for 62.5 million Euro, and a food security programme 71million. Emergency finance aid made 19 million, and humanitarian six million. Another four million came to alleviate the Russian financial crisis impact on Georgia, and a million to help Georgian border guards. Two million Euro was allocated to implement in Georgia the European democracy and rights initiative.

The European Union ranks the world's third among Georgia's overseas donors. The USA leads with 31 per cent of the whole amount. The World Bank follows with 17 per cent. EU aid makes 15 per cent. Next come the International Monetary Fund, 12%, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 7%, and Germany and the United Nations, 5% each. All other donors account for a lump 8%.

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