The Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (Mase), Claudio Barbaro, and the Italian Ambassador to Tanzania, Giuseppe Coppola, speaking today at the Africa Head of State Energy Summit in Dar Es Salaam, expressed their appreciation for the Tanzanian government's commitment to promoting access to electricity, especially in rural areas, and for the efforts, including international ones, of President Samia Suluhu Hassan in promoting clean cooking in particular, with benefits for the environment and health.
The summit, whose delegation also included Alessandro Guerri, the director general of Mase's International Affairs Directorate, was also an opportunity to recall that Tanzania has been named among the new countries to implement the Mattei Plan for Africa.
"These new initiatives are strengthened by the Grant resources that the Ministry of the Environment already provides to specific leveraged instruments of the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB)," Barbaro stressed.
"These invaluable resources, allocated strategically, allow for the design of large-scale operations that also involve private individuals.
For Italy, in fact, as Prime Minister Meloni indicated, Africa is a priority context in which it is possible to generate the prerequisites for a thriving and resilient economy of its own'.
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