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Spanish Provincial
Reconstruction Team Cooperates
with MRRD in Badghis
May - 25
- 2007 (Badghis)
 The Spanish Agency for
International Cooperation (AECI),
integrate the civilian component
of the Spanish “Provincial
Reconstruction Team” (PRT) and
it is currently constructing
almost 100 km of rural roads
(Qin-Sabzak, Qin-Sangatesh, Qin-Ab
Khamri, Qin – Muqar).
In order to allow for
the maintenance of these roads,
30 heavy construction machines
(trucks, graders, dozers cranes
etc…) will be delivered to the
Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation
and Development in Qala-i-Naw.
Receiving the heavy
machinery, the MRRD Minister,
Mohammad Ehsan Zia said, “The
Spanish PRT is always working
side by side with our ministry.
We jointly responded to the last
floods in the province –
delivered 35 Tns of food, 4
trucks of medicines and
different humanitarian aids such
as tents and blankets.”
Country director of AECI,
Mr. Pablo Yuste said, “In order
to allow for the maintenance of
these roads, not only is this
heavy construction machinery
being turned over to MRRD, but
also a repair-shop will be
established allowing the MRRD
local staff to repair them by
themselves.”
AECI, intents to break
Badghis’s historical isolation
and wishes to connect each and
every district with the capital
by the end of 2010.
The presence of both
contingents, civilian and
military, responds to the
commitment assumed by Spain
in the London Conference to
the reconstruction of
Afghanistan with 150 million
Euros in the period
2006-2010.
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