ZAGREB, March 18 (Hina) - The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development will donate US$80,000 for the development of the Croatian national programme of solving the year 200 problem. The IBRD will donate the funds via the
Ministry of Science and Technology. The Croatian Government at Thursday's session granted the initiation of the procedure on signing an agreement on the donation, which will be the first agreement between Croatia and the IBRD in science and technology. The activities and measures the Croatian Government intends to realise on the basis of the National Programme of Solving the Year 2000 Problem, the millennium bug, will be more effective with the use of the earmarked, non-repayable funds, sources at the Science and Technology Ministry said. From the total amount of the donation, US$24,000 is intended to advisory services of Croatian and foreign experts, US$16,000 for education
ZAGREB, March 18 (Hina) - The International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development will donate US$80,000 for the development of the
Croatian national programme of solving the year 200 problem.
The IBRD will donate the funds via the Ministry of Science and
Technology.
The Croatian Government at Thursday's session granted the
initiation of the procedure on signing an agreement on the
donation, which will be the first agreement between Croatia and the
IBRD in science and technology.
The activities and measures the Croatian Government intends to
realise on the basis of the National Programme of Solving the Year
2000 Problem, the millennium bug, will be more effective with the
use of the earmarked, non-repayable funds, sources at the Science
and Technology Ministry said.
From the total amount of the donation, US$24,000 is intended to
advisory services of Croatian and foreign experts, US$16,000 for
educational expenses, US$17,000 for higher management seminars and
US$8,000 for a public campaign about the problem.
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