Ministry Of Justice To Launch Masters Degree Program For Legal Professionals
Addis Ababa, May 21ENA)-- The Ministry of Justice said it would launch a masters degree program for legal professionals including judges and prosecutors next week with the financial assistance from the government of the Netherlands.
Public Relations Services Head with the Ministry Mekonnen Worke told ENA on Friday the program would be carried out beginning May 25, 2004 within the premises of the Ministry set up for this purpose.
Some 40 prosecutors, judges, legal professionals from the National Defense and police forces, among others, would be enrolled in the program, he said.
The Ministry has allocated 500,000 Birr for furnishing the section where the program will be carried out while the government of the Netherlands donated 1.2 million Euros for carrying out the program, he said.Scholars from the Netherlands and other European countries and the US will serve as lecturers, he said.
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