Egypt to take part in UN Tajikestan conference
Egypt-Tajikestan, Business, 11/22/1997

Egypt will participate in the first conference for the donor countries to help Tajikestan with the needed supplies and resources to implement the peace agreement and begin reconstruction.

The conference will be held in Vienna, Austria. Egypt will be represented at the conference by Dr. Mahmoud El Saeed, the secretary-general of the Egyptian Fund for Technical Cooperation with the Commonwealth on behalf of Amr Moussa, the Egyptian foreign minister.

Ambassador Mahmoud El Saeed declared that the two-day conference, sponsored by the United Nations, will discuss the issue of reconstructing Tajikestan and supplying the necessary resources. 70 countries and 60 international organizations are to participate in the conference, which will be initiated by President Rahmonov of Tajikestan and the representative of the secretary general and foreign minister of Austria.

He added that Egypt will submit human and technical aids to Tajikestan at a cost of a LE 500,000 in addition to the amount it has supplied during the last five years which reached LE 1.5 million.

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