Japan-Jordan Joint Training Program for Power Network System in Iraq

April 27, 2004

As part of its humanitarian and reconstruction assistance for Iraq, the Government of Japan, in cooperation with Jordan, will conduct a power network system training program from May 4 (Tue) in Amman.
A total of 40 persons concerned from the Electric Power Ministry of Iraq will participate in the program, which consists of four terms up to mid-July and of three courses: Power System Analysis, Control System and Communication System. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) of Jordan, to which Japan has provided technical cooperation in these sectors, will carry out the program.
Japan attaches importance to co-ordinated actions with Arab countries in extending humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to Iraq. With the NEPCO, an organization to which Japan has extended technical cooperation, as implementing agency on the Jordanian side, this program is designed to enable Japan to effectively utilize for its assistance to Iraq, the assets already accumulated through its technical cooperation to Jordan.

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