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09-12-2006, 02:30 PM
The European Union will invest approximately 40 million euros for rural electricity projects in the DR and to help people who cannot pay their electricity bills as from 2007, according to a report in Diario Libre. The information was announced by Ambassador Dino Sinigallia, who said that the EU was getting involved in the electricity sector as a way of contributing towards poverty reduction. Sinigallia explained that the EU's aid program for the DR is worth EUR180 million. The diplomat was speaking during a visit to Chamber of Deputies President Julio Cesar Valentin. He was accompanied by EU officials in charge of economic and political affairs, Rodolfo Lazarishi Gener and Jonathan Pitts.
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