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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8212

16 May 2002
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/afghanistan
Further Commission aid - Chris Patten goes to the country and Pakistan

Brussels, 15/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, the European Commission took two decisions on funding for Afghanistan which act on its pledge to continue to provide aid to the country's reconstruction.

The first decision, taken under the rapid intervention mechanism for civil crisis management, concerns the granting of an additional 5.9 million to the interim Afghan Authority (20 million euro had already been released in January by the Commission as initial aid paid to the UNDP) to...

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