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Lima, Dic. 02 (ANDINA) .- The Executive Power will accelerate a package of 60 projects of investment in road infrastructure, homes and hospitals to sustain growth in domestic demand to offset the effects of international financial crisis, said today the president of the Council of Ministers, Yehude Simon. "It's part of the plan (anti-crisis) and the only way to address the crisis, avoid recession, is one of the most important steps in this moment," he said. He added that this plan has already been secured and the Minister of Economy and Finance Luis Valdivieso, you have to say that face any difficulty in tax revenue the country has international loans, while it will be the President, Alan Garc a, who announced the measures in this anti-crisis plan in the coming weeks. "One of the most important things is that from the first of January next year we must begin now to make public investment," he said. He said today (Tuesday) met with the president to work the list of public investment projects to prioritize in order to maintain the growth of domestic demand, investment, job creation and infrastructure to provide the country . Also, Simon said that Peru is in very good condition to withstand the international financial crisis. Among the major projects under consideration on the list is the construction of a two-way (both ways) in the Pan American highway between Lima and Tumbes. Even the road Tacna to La Paz and a series of works such as hospitals, investments in the Amazon and south of the country, which means not only building in Lima but invest in the provinces, he said.