Compact Signing Ceremony with Lesotho

7/22/2007

In a signing ceremony on July 22, 2007 at the U.S. State Department’s Benjamin Franklin room, MCC and Lesotho’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations signed a $363 million Compact designed to reduce poverty by promoting sustainable economic growth. MCC’s Chair, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, officiated and witnessed the signing joined by Lesotho’s Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili.

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  • Lesotho Compact

    MCC's investments will increase the availability of water for household and industrial use, test watershed management and conservation methods, rehabilitate health infrastructure and strengthen health systems, and remove barriers to investment.