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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8523

20 August 2003
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/liberia
Commission proposes using EUR 50 million from EDF to support the peace process

Brussels, 19/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has proposed that the Council should allocate EUR 50 million from the European Development Fund (EDF) to support the difficult peace process under way in Liberia. Such funding would above all allow the ongoing peacekeeping operation conducted by ECOWAS to continue until the arrival of the United Nations stabilisation force planned for October. Support is also envisaged at a later stage for demobilisation programmes and for the...

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