Main features of Dutch policy on Africa 1.1 Dutch policy on Africa: key aspects Sub-Saharan Africa is the only part of the world where the general standard of living has been falling in recent...
Burundi + 9 more
Burundi + 9 more
Main features of Dutch policy on Africa 1.1 Dutch policy on Africa: key aspects Sub-Saharan Africa is the only part of the world where the general standard of living has been falling in recent...
Iraq + 1 more
In response to a proposal from Agnes van Ardenne, Minister for Development Cooperation, and Henk Kamp, Minister of Defence, the government has decided to make a Fokker 60 available to the United...
Development cooperation minister Agnes van Ardenne has called on the parties to the conflict in Sudan to adopt a flexible attitude to the peace negotiations and to reach agreement within a few...
Minister for Development Cooperation Agnes van Ardenne will be visiting Sudan - where peace negotiations have reached a crucial stage - from 8 to 12 November. With her visit, Ms Van Ardenne wants to...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The Government of the Netherlands today donated ETB 8.61 million (US$ 1 million) to UNICEF for malaria prevention activities in Ethiopia. The donation comes in the wake of a...
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has announced that the government plans to send HMS Rotterdam to Liberia for three months. She will support the UN peacekeeping forces by doing duty as a hospital...
Rwanda + 2 more
Minister for Development Cooperation Agnes van Ardenne is to visit Africa from 20 to 22 October 2003 to discuss the peace processes in the Great Lakes region and the Horn of Africa. She will start in...
Over the next four years, the Netherlands will spend at least USD 95 million on the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan. That is what Minister for Development Cooperation Agnes van Ardenne...
It is now a year since Arjan Erkel, a Médecins sans Frontières volunteer, was taken hostage in the Russian Republic of Dagestan. Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says the Ministry...
The Minister for Development Cooperation, Agnes van Ardenne, met the Burundian president Domitien Ndayizeye for talks on 14 July. President Ndayizeye's visit to the Netherlands was part of a European...
Washington DC - Dutch Foreign Minister de Hoop Scheffer, and Defense Minister Kamp released the following information in The Hague on June 6, 2003 during a press conference: In accordance with UN...
Development minister Agnes Van Ardenne is to donate around €1.7 million extra for humanitarian aid in Iraq. The money will be spent on projects set up by the non-governmental organisations CARE...
Minister for Development Cooperation Agnes van Ardenne is to contribute €14.2 million to the United Nations Consolidated Appeal for Iraq, launched today in New York by UN Deputy Secretary-General,...
From 1 to 3 April in Noordwijk, a donor conference will be held on the reconstruction of Sudan, hosted by the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation, Agnes van Ardenne. The aim of the conference...
The Dutch Government seeks to secure a central role for the United Nations (UN) in the reconstruction of Iraq. An interim government or stabilising force should preferably be based on a new UN...
Development Cooperation Minister Agnes van Ardenne has committed EUR 4 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to be used for humanitarian aid to Iraq. The UN anticipates that...
Côte d'Ivoire + 12 more
Agnes van Ardenne, Minister for Development Cooperation, is donating 9 million euros to the UN to alleviate the food crisis in Africa. Of this sum, 5 million will go to the Horn of Africa, 3 million...