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World Bank approves loans to iran for primary health and Sewerage.

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WASHINGTON, May 18, 2000

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the World Bank's Board of Directors, representing its 181 member countries, today approved two loans to Iran for a total of US$232

million.

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the loans are to finance the Second Primary Health Care and Nutrition Project in the amount of US$87 million, and the Tehran

Sewerage Project in the amount of US$145 million.

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Both loans focus on basic human needs and target the under-served areas and the poor, and are intended to support the reform

efforts of President Khatami.

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