Norway allocating approximately $53 mln to Ukraine to cover salaries, pensions, social benefits - Interfax-Ukraine
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Norway is allocating NOK 500 million (approximately $53 million) through the World Bank to Ukraine's state budget, which will help sustain critical public services and ensure the payment of wages, pensions, and social benefits in Ukraine's civilian sector in early 2027, according to a statement posted on the Norwegian government's website on Friday.
"Ukraine's resilience also depends on keeping everyday life going, even as the war continues.
Norway is helping to ensure that children can go to school, hospitals can treat patients and pensioners can receive their pensions," Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide following a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha in Warsaw, where they are jointly participating in a meeting of foreign ministers from Germany, Poland, the Nordic and Baltic countries, along with EU High Representative for Foreign
Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas.
The meeting is dedicated to the situation in Ukraine and is part of a broad diplomatic eff…
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