Taiwan funding 

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PRESS STATEMENT
16 May 2006 19:53:26 

TAIWAN/ROC REGIONAL ASSISTANCE

Eight Pacific regional organisations have received US$735,000 from Taiwan/ROC as part of an aid package covering 32 projects.

The assistance was originally announced last October and handed over today at the Forum Secretariat by Taiwan's Trade Representative in Suva, Fiji, Mr Sherman Kuo.

Taiwan/ROC has assured its support for the Pacific Plan which reflects the Forum four goals of economic growth, sustainable development, good governance and security.

The eight organisations are part of the ten-member Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP). The latest assistance is shared by:

-Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency - USD 80,000
- Fiji School of Medicine - USD 30,000
- Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat - USD 210,000
- Secretariat of the Pacific Community - USD 238,000
- Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme - USD 30,000 
- South Pacific Board for Educational Assessment - USD 15,000
- South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission - USD 80,000
- University of the South Pacific - USD 52,449


Forum Secretariat, Suva
17 May 2006