Friday, September 10, 2010

Geo436.com blog: EU pushes to grant trade aid to Pakistan

Geo 436 BRUSSELS: EU diplomatic chief Catherine Ashton led calls on Friday for Europe to grant special exemptions from trade tariffs to Pakistan as part of a wide-ranging aid programme following disastrous floods. The European Union”s top overseas envoy urged foreign ministers holding weekend talks in a Brussels palace to “link together” policies from humanitarian aid to trade, to offset floods that have turned some 21 million lives upside down and so far killed 1,760 people


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