{"id":4166,"date":"2017-07-17T16:53:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2017\/07\/comitato-congiunto-cooperazione-2\/"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:53:14","slug":"comitato-congiunto-cooperazione","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2017\/07\/comitato-congiunto-cooperazione\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Committee for Development Cooperation approves a package of interventions for a total of nearly 53 million euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have approved a package of projects, programmes and tenders for about 53 million euros, which further proves the Government&#8217;s constant commitment in the field of development cooperation &#8211; a pillar of our foreign policy that represents a strategic investment of growing importance, &#8221; said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, commenting on today&#8217;s meeting of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation.Alfano underlined in particular the encouraging prospects for the Country Programme for Ethiopia 2017-2019. &#8220;It is an ambitious programme that confirms and consolidates our partnership with Ethiopian authorities in strategic sectors that we together identified with a view to countering the root causes of the migration phenomenon.&#8221;Minister Alfano also said that he was &#8220;especially happy for the approval of cooperation initiatives addressed to Sudan and Tunisia, which are among Italy&#8217;s priority partners.&#8221; Moreover, the minister called attention to a new project which is financed through the &#8220;Fund for Africa&#8221; with a contribution of 3.5 million euros. It is a regional initiative to support the protection of minors, who were victims of human rights violations in Senegal, Mali, Gambia, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau and Niger.Italy&#8217;s commitment in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine continues via interventions dedicated to assisting refugees and supporting local SMEs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We have approved a package of projects, programmes and tenders for about 53 million euros, which further proves the Government&#8217;s constant commitment in the field of development cooperation &#8211; a pillar of our foreign policy that represents a strategic investment of growing importance, &#8221; said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,76],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-cooperazione-sviluppo","tag-ministri-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}