Today, February 11th, the Prime-minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Almazbek Atambaev held a meeting with the Resident Coordinator of the UN system, the UNDP Resident Representative in Kyrgyzstan Neal Walker.
The Head of the Government expresses a gratitude to the UN system agencies and the UN Development Programme for multilateral support of the reforms implemented in our country, assistance in crisis situations overcoming and problems associated with them.
“United Nations became one of the first international organizations, with which the close relations have being restored immediately after the April revolution of 2010, and this organization was the first providing remedy humanitarian aid after tragic events in June last year,” – the Prime-minister stated out.
In his turn, the UNDP Resident Representative informed the Head of the Government about the humanitarian aid provided to Kyrgyzstan by the UN system. He emphasized attention on the new UN and UNDP programme cycle for 2012-2016 and elaboration of the Development Assistance Framework to the Kyrgyz Republic by the UN system agencies (UNDAF) and the UNDP Programme Document (CPD) and on development of the new programme promoting the peace-building and conflict prevention through attraction of the funds of the UN Peace-building Fund. Besides, he has informed about conducted work and problem related to the uranium tailing sites.
The Prime-minister mentioned that the Government supported the strategies on assistance provided to Kyrgyzstan by the UN – UNDAF and UNDP – the Country Programme Document have being developed within the next programme cycle for 2012-2016. He has expressed a readiness to sign the UNDAF in the second half of March, and to cooperate with UNDP regarding implementation of its new country programme document. He underlined that the Government of Kyrgyzstan paid a special attention to ensuring security, peace-building and conflict prevention. The Government puts strong efforts on causes prevention and combating against challenges and risk.
“The Government of the country is ready to contribute into implementation of the second phase of the peace-building and conflict-prevention programme and it is interested in further follow-up of this programme. Since a process of peace recovery and conflict prevention is very complex and the long-term one. Therefore, we have to think jointly about continuation of this programme on a long-term base, including attraction of funds from the UN Peace-building Fund. The Government will provide support for mobilization of funds from this Fund,” – the Prime-minister pointed out in conclusion.
Source: Kyrgyz Government website
