Ramos moves to save project

Mon, 14 Nov 1994, 00:00 WIB | Source: AFP

MANILA (AFP): President Fidel Ramos yesterday moved to save
Japanese funding for a 1.3 billion peso (US$54.17 million)
irrigation project in the southern Philippines, which has been
disrupted by Moslem guerrilla violence.

Ramos directed Executive Secretary Teofisto Guingona to assure
Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Yoshifumi Matsuda and
Japan's Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF) officials that
the government is addressing the peace and order situation at the
project site, a presidential palace statement said.

Ramos has deployed an army engineering unit to take over the
construction work in Carmen town, which he is scheduled to visit
Friday, it added.

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