PANA, photo: Jan Baert
Mali and the European Union (EU) signed two financial agreements Monday in Bamako worth a total of 2.2 billion francs CFA to fight desertification, official sources affirmed here.The first pact for more than 1.2 billion FCFA, is intended to help strengthen cooperation such as assistance to the technical departments, the EDF programmes-projects under way and the organisation of conferences and seminars relative to cooperation with the EU.
It will also contribute to the execution, as early as January 2008, of programmes under the 10th EDF, to the implementation of the Paris declaration on the harmonisation of aid and promotion of a more coherent approach to development and trade through the training of beneficiaries.
The second accord worth nearly 1 billion FCFA that will help extend the programme until 31 December 2009 and will enforce consolidation of actions engaged in toward environmental protection, prevention of the silting of the Niger river and against the desert advance.
The new funding brings to the total of 10.169 billion F CFA so far contributed by the European Union to the environmental programme in support to desertification control in Mali.
The Mali minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation, Moctar Ouane, and the EU head delegate in Bamako, Irčne Horjs, signed the documents.
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