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World Bank Studies Ways for Post-Conflict Era Aid

Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
NEWS
July 21, 2004
Posted to the web July 21, 2004
Luanda
The World Bank (WB) is analysing ways to reinforce the co-operation and to aid
Angola in the challenges of the post-conflict period, the spokesman of a
mission of this financial institution, Bagio Bossone, said today at the end of
a meeting with the National Parliament Speaker, Roberto de Almeida.
According to the spokesperson, the mission of the WB for Africa is in Angola
with an objective to know the actual reality of the country, after facing a
three-decade of armed conflict, and study ways for the reconstruction of the
African country.
Speaking to Journalists, Mr Bossone, who is also the director of the WB for
Italy, said that during the audience with the Parliament Speaker "we understood
that a visit to Angola was necessary to us". To learn and know more about your
reality was our objective, said the official.
Mr Bossone emphasized that the World Bank is analysing ways to reinforce the
co-operation with Angola, either by granting direct or indirectly aid through a
greater intervention of the donors community and considered that there is a
greater effort from the Angolan Government in the execution of the projects
funded by the institution.
Today, the mission of the executive directors of the World Bank was informed on
the urgency of the Government regarding the holding of the long-awaited
international donors conference, during a meeting with the Minister of Social
Welfare and Reintegration, Joao Baptista Kussumua.
The delegation that is since Sunday in the country, visited Monday and Tuesday
the country's southern Benguela province, where they got acquainted with the
degree of execution of the infrastructures covered by the World Bank, the main
financier of the Social Aid Fund (FAS), whose third phase of its project is
estimated at USD 120 million, as well as the general programme of
demobilisation and reintegration of ex-soldiers, worth nearly USD 100 million.
This delegation has already visited Windhoek, Namibia, and Johannesburg, South
Africa.

   

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