Mozambique Compact Signing Ceremony
Mozambican Minister of Development and Planning Aiuba Cuereneia and MCC CEO Ambassador John Danilovich sign the MCC-Mozambique Compact while (left to right) Ambassador Armando Panguene, Mozambican Ambassador to the United States, President Armando Guebuza, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, and MCC Board Member Alan Patricof observe.
In a signing ceremony July 13, 2007 at the State Department’s Benjamin Franklin room, Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Ambassador John Danilovich, and Mozambican Minister of Development and Planning Aiuba Cuereneia signed a $506.9 million Compact designed to reduce poverty in Mozambique by promoting sustainable economic growth. Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte officiated and witnessed the signing joined by Mozambican President Armando Guebuza.