Government Seeks Donor Assistance to Prevent Avian Flu

Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said at the government?s session on January 18 that the Georgian government will request that the World Bank and other donor organizations allocate USD 15 million to implement avian flu preventive measures. 

?At the next stage we will open some more special emergency offices throughout Georgia in order to  monitor the situation in the regions,? Zurab Nogaideli said.

The Georgian government has already decided to allocate a total of GEL 2.7 million (USD 1.5 million) for measures to prevent the arrival of the virus in the country. This is an increase of GEL 1.9 million to the sum allocated by the government last October.

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