This year Georgia will get up to $1 billion in the frames of international financial aid program out of $4.5 billion decided at the donors conference in Brussels last year, said Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri to Rustavi-2 channel.

These funds granted by the international financial organizations and donor states, inclusing EC will go for construction of the Georgian East-West highway, high voltage power line (500) intended to connect Georgian and Turkish energy systems, as well as other infrastructure projects, Gilauri underlined.

Previously it was reported that by the beginning of this March Georgia received about 50% out of the amount promised at the Brussels conference.

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