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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: August 29, 2007 |
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For the first time since the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut, Germany has reinstated financial aid to Syria to the tune of 34 million euros, or approximately $46 million, Syrian officials said.
The aid package is to be used as a soft financing and grants for infrastructure and development projects.
"Syria needs to progress on the political, civil society and rule of law fronts, but our work is based on cooperation, not confrontation," stated German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, who signed the aid agreement in Damascus with Syria's head of the government planning division, Tayseer al-Radawi.
After the assassination of Hariri, diplomatic and economic relations between Syria and the West broke down. Syria has denied the findings of a United Nations investigation into the assassination, which charged that Lebanese and Syrian security were involved in killing. |
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