MACEDONIA: CREDIT AGREEMENT SIGNED WITH TAIWAN

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English/Nat Taiwan has agreed to give Macedonia credit agreements worth around 12 (m) million U-S dollars. The decision was finalised at a meeting in the Macedonian capital Skopje between Taiwanese and Macedonian government officials. Taiwan's deputy foreign minister had come with a trade delegation on Wednesday to discuss how Taiwan could help Macedonia. At a meeting the following day to establish new lines of credit for small and medium sized Macedonian companies, the Taiwanese agreed to lend the sum of 12 (m) U-S dollars. The final terms of an agreement have yet to be finalised. But Macedonia will be glad of the help at a time when its resources are being fully stretched by tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians fleeing their homes. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) "The conditions for credit haven't been fine tuned yet but the funds will be available from May 15 this year. This money can only be used to buy equipment and raw materials from Taiwan." SUPER CAPTION: Lazar Tuporkovski, Director of Development Agency Taiwanese deputy foreign minister David Lee heads a 90 member delegation to Macedonia, made up of trade and medical personnel. The delegation brought five (m) million U-S dollars worth of aid - predominantly medical aid and equipment to set up a field hospital to serve the Kosovar refugees. Taiwan had already sent another two (m) million dollars of aid beforehand. The two countries have only recently established diplomatic relations - in January this year. The aid and the credit agreement signed today is just the beginning of increased links between Skopje and Taipei. SOUNDBITE: (English) "We are anticipating the visit by the prime minister in May. By that time we hope we may conclude some long term economic and technical provisional agreement so that will serve as the base of the our relations in the years to come." SUPER CAPTION: David Lee, Deputy Foreign Minister of Taiwan) Taiwan will have an official trade mission in Skopje for a period of three years. During that time, Taipei hopes to dispatch various technical missions to help with the improvement of Macedonia's infrastructure. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ffb47ecd84a2fea76a024b4ca794c647 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

MACEDONIA: CREDIT AGREEMENT SIGNED WITH TAIWAN

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English/Nat Taiwan has agreed to give Macedonia credit agreements worth around 12 (m) million U-S dollars. The decision was finalised at a meeting in the Macedonian capital Skopje between Taiwanese and Macedonian government officials. Taiwan's deputy foreign minister had come with a trade delegation on Wednesday to discuss how Taiwan could help Macedonia. At a meeting the following day to establish new lines of credit for small and medium sized Macedonian companies, the Taiwanese agreed to lend the sum of 12 (m) U-S dollars. The final terms of an agreement have yet to be finalised. But Macedonia will be glad of the help at a time when its resources are being fully stretched by tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians fleeing their homes. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) "The conditions for credit haven't been fine tuned yet but the funds will be available from May 15 this year. This money can only be used to buy equipment and raw materials from Taiwan." SUPER CAPTION: Lazar Tuporkovski, Director of Development Agency Taiwanese deputy foreign minister David Lee heads a 90 member delegation to Macedonia, made up of trade and medical personnel. The delegation brought five (m) million U-S dollars worth of aid - predominantly medical aid and equipment to set up a field hospital to serve the Kosovar refugees. Taiwan had already sent another two (m) million dollars of aid beforehand. The two countries have only recently established diplomatic relations - in January this year. The aid and the credit agreement signed today is just the beginning of increased links between Skopje and Taipei. SOUNDBITE: (English) "We are anticipating the visit by the prime minister in May. By that time we hope we may conclude some long term economic and technical provisional agreement so that will serve as the base of the our relations in the years to come." SUPER CAPTION: David Lee, Deputy Foreign Minister of Taiwan) Taiwan will have an official trade mission in Skopje for a period of three years. During that time, Taipei hopes to dispatch various technical missions to help with the improvement of Macedonia's infrastructure. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ffb47ecd84a2fea76a024b4ca794c647 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork