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Donor Support – 1998

An appeal for Tajikistan was launched in Geneva in March for a total of $34.6 million for 1998 to extend the humanitarian donor alert, which expired at the end of 1997. In addition, the World Bank organized a Joint Consultative Group meeting in Paris on 20 May in order to mobilize resources for development.¹ In April of 1998, Tajikistan received a $50 million loan from the World Bank to finance projects in health care, education, telecommunication, highways and public transportation.²

1. «Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation in Tajikistan,» United Nations (S/1998/374), May 6, 1998.
2. «World Bank Grants 50m-Dollar Loan to Tajikistan,» BBC Monitoring Central Asia, April 22, 1998.