Planning and International Cooperation Minister Imad Fakhoury said Saturday that Jordan is currently seeking to hold a meeting on the sidelines of the 72nd Regular Session of the UN General Assembly, to follow up on the international pledges made at the conferences of London and Brussels on Syria and neighbouring countries.
In a press release, Fakhoury said that the meeting,Read more
Planning and International Cooperation Minister Imad Fakhoury, Chairman of the Higher National Committee for Sustainable Development presented Jordan’s National Voluntary Review Report on the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the UN in New York.
Fakhoury said that Jordan is on the right path in implementing the sustainable development agenda 2030, representing aRead more
Prime Minister Hani Al Mulki met in Tokyo on Thursday with Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida and discussed with him Jordanian-Japanese ties as well as the latest developments in the Middle East.
During the meeting, which was attended by Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Imad Fakhoury, Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs Ayman Safadi and Minister ofRead more
Planning and International Cooperation Minister Imad Fakhoury on Saturday held a coordination meeting of the Ministerial Committee for Decentralization with donors to support the decentralization project.
Interior Ministers Ghaleb Zu’bi, Municipal Affairs Walid Masri, Political and Parliamentary Development Musa Maaitah, General Secretaries of various Ministries, ambassadors of donor conutries, and other concerned bodies attended the meeting.
In a press statement,Read more
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Imad Fakhoury, on Saturday, underlined the importance of continued support for Jordan to provide high quality services to Syrian refugees and host communities.
The minister made the remarks during a meeting with a U.S. congressional delegation, now on a visit to check first hand on the repercussions of the Syrian refugee crisis on theRead more
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Imad Fakhoury, said Jordan is looking forward to benefitting from the various forms of sovereign and non-sovereign funding instruments and technical assistance offered by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
During a meeting with an AIIB’s delegation headed by Vice President for Policy and Strategy, Joachim von Amsberg, Fakhoury said Jordan hopes that suchRead more
Jordan has embarked on a package of measures to encourage "green growth in the environment" aimed at benefiting from local energies and reducing dependence on costly imports, a World Bank (WB) report has underlined.
The ultimate goal is to create decent jobs in a country suffering from rising unemployment and low economic growth rate of only 2.3 per cent inRead more
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Imad Fakhoury, Monday, stressed the importance of renewing the memorandum of understanding which governs the U.S. assistance to Jordan for the next 5 years.
The minister made the remarks as he met with a U.S. House of Representatives delegation led by head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
During the meeting, the ministerRead more
Germany has announced that it is extending a 97.4 million Euro grant to Jordan to help carry out a number of development-oriented projects in the Kingdom as part of a pledge made by the European nation at a recent donors conference in Brussels, Belgium, according to Jordanian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Imad Fakhoury.
The Petra News Agency quotedRead more
Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the Japanese government on Monday, signed an agreement under which the Japanese government, through the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), provides an additional grant to the Jordanian government, valued at $21,616,344.
The grant will be administered by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) to support the second phase of an urgentRead more