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Azerbaijan to grant $1 million to Moldova for overcoming consequences of drought

August 20, 2007
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Azerbaijan will donate $1 million to Moldova as financial assistance for overcoming a hard situation in the agricultural sector. Tarlev's Azeri colleague Artur Rasi-zade told it to him on telephone on Saturday.

He remarked that the Cabinet of Ministers took this decision in response to the call of the Moldovan authorities upon the world community in the connection with the unprecedented drought of the finishing summer.

Earlier Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, China, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Russia, Germany and France responded to Moldova's call.

The mission of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which will prepare a report on Moldova's losses in the connection with the drought to present it to the world community and to donor countries, will complete its activities in Moldova on Tuesday. // Infotag