Press Release: EU announces future commitments for development cooperation with Iraq

During a meeting with the Iraqi delegation led by Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on 20 January 2014, European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, announced that around €75 million of development support would be made available to Iraq during the period 2014 – 2020. The three proposed main areas of cooperation are: Rule of Law and Human Rights, Capacity Building in primary and secondary education and Sustainable Energy for all.

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