EU pledges $1.07 bln to help rebuild quake-hit Turkey

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1 年前

STORY: "We need to mobilize for reconstruction. Homes and schools and hospitals must be rebuilt, with the highest standards of seismic safety,” she said at an international conference in Brussels which aims to drum up support following a devastating earthquake there last month.

“Water and sanitation and other critical infrastructure must be repaired. Public services and businesses need capital to restart, so that people can earn a living," she added.

The Commission would spend a further $115.8 million (108 million euros) on humanitarian assistance and early recovery in Syria, where the European Union does not have diplomatic ties with President Bashar al-Assad over a war that had started in 2011.