Yesterday the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religious Affairs, Laurent Lamothe, announced in the presence of Benoist Bazin, Head of Infrastructure Section of the Delegation of the European Union in Haiti and Price Pady, the national authorising officer of the European Development Fund, a donation of €10 million for Haiti, for the reconstruction of damaged or destroyed ministries on January 12, 2010.

"I thank the EU to be with us today, and the National Authorising Officer for this visit aimed at helping the Haitian government in the reconstruction of our ministries," declared the chancellor "we had a very good meeting today with the charge d'affaires of the European Union, as part of the reconstruction of the Ministry Foreign Affairs, Ministry of TPTC and the office of the authorizing officer. This is a project valued at about 10 million euros, of which about 3 million for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

We will soon launch the tender to begin the reconstruction [...] because it is time to give the state the means to work well, because we are in a difficult situation in our premises. We thank once again the Chargé d'affaires to work closely with us and we appreciate the cooperation and the collaboration of the European Union in its assistance to Haiti."

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