Press Releases
- 2006 Press Releases
2006 Press Releases
OPEC Fund press releases are issued at regular intervals throughout the year: as communiqués following Governing Board and Ministerial Council meetings; to announce the signature of loan agreements and approval of new grants; on release of the Annual Report; and on other miscellaneous occasions.
The press releases are intended for use by information media and are not official records.
For further details on projects or programs covered in the press releases, requests should be addressed directly to the relevant executing agency as identified in the Data Summary.
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April - June
- :: 03.04.2006 | PR30/2006
University of Bristol students visit OPEC Fund - :: 03.04.2006 | PR31/2006
OPEC Fund assists relief efforts in Western Iran with US$500,000 in emergency aid - :: 18.04.2006 | PR32/2006
Grant agreement signed between the OPEC Fund and AOAD - :: 04.05.2006 | PR33/2006
OPEC Fund hosts meeting of heads of Arab aid financing institutions - :: 05.05.2006 | PR34/2006
OPEC Fund welcomes chief executives of multilateral finance institutions - :: 05.05.2006 | PR35/2006
Heads of Institutions of Arab Funds, the Islamic Development Bank and OPEC Fund for International Development reaffirm commitment to partner countries - :: 09.05.2006 | PR36/2006
Austrian Museum of Fine Arts Friends visit OFID - :: 09.05.2006 | PR37/2006
OFID announces Annual Award recipient - :: 11.05.2006 | PR38/2006
Bolivia's higher education sector receives US$10.7 million OFID loan - :: 11.05.2006 | PR39/2006
Rural development project in Guatemala receives US$10 million OFID loan - :: 11.05.2006 | PR40/2006
OFID extends US$4 million loan to Nicaragua for poverty reduction scheme - :: 11.05.2006 | PR41/2006
OFID extends grant to support education scheme in Tajikistan - :: 11.05.2006 | PR42/2006
Project to help vulnerable children in Ethiopia receives OFID support - :: 12.05.2006 | PR43/2006
Tertiary education sector in Colombia receives boost with US$10 million OFID loan - :: 13.05.2006 | PR44/2006
OFID signs Memorandum of Understanding with Inter-American Development Bank - :: 17.05.2006 | PR45/2006
Nicaraguan President visits OFID - :: 17.05.2006 | PR46/2006
Bolivian President visits OFID - :: 17.05.2006 | PR47/2006
Cuban Vice-President visits OFID - :: 17.05.2006 | PR48/2006
OFID receives Prime Minister of Belize - :: 17.05.2006 | PR49/2006
OFID hosts Colombian Vice-President - :: 17.05.2006 | PR50/2006
Vice-President of the Dominican Republic Visits OFID - :: 30.05.2006 | PR51/2006
OFID extends US$600,000 grant for earthquake victims in Indonesia - :: 09.06.2006 | PR52/2006
OFID attends G77 40th meeting of chapters heads - :: 13.06.2006 | PR53/2006
OFID Ministerial Council holds Twenty-Seventh Annual Session - :: 13.06.2006 | PR54/2006
OFID releases Annual Report 2005 - :: 13.06.2006 | PR55/2006
OFID approves US$15 Million in fresh funds to Palestine - :: 13.06.2006 | PR56/2006
OFID presents Annual Award to HUMANA - :: 13.06.2006 | PR57/2006
Bolivian Finance Minister pays courtesy call on OFID - :: 13.06.2006 | PR58/2006
OFID Governing Board holds 115th session - :: 13.06.2006 | PR59/2006
OFID extends US$250,000 for expansion of CEFIM Vocational Center for Women in Bolivia - :: 13.06.2006 | PR60/2006
Marine resources management in the Red Sea receives a grant of US$600,000 - :: 13.06.2006 | PR61/2006
OFID grants a US$250,000 toward securing land tenure and sustainable development in the Sofala Province, Mozambique - :: 13.06.2006 | PR62/2006
OFID extends US$3.5 million to scale up prevention of mother/child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Sub-saharan Africa - :: 13.06.2006 | PR63/2006
OFID offers US$350,000 to support the 16th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006) in Toronto, Canada - :: 19.06.2006 | PR64/2006
OFID grants a US$3,000,000 for reduction of deprivation in Palestine - :: 27.06.2006 | PR65/2006
OFID meets with high level officials in Syria - :: 28.06.2006 | PR66/2006
OFID opens 30 Years of Partnership and Cooperation Project Exhibition