DUSHANBE – A delegation representing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Economic Development of Russian Federation will visit Tajikistan to monitor the implementation and achievements of UNDP projects funded by the Government of the Russian Federation. A press conference will be held to conclude the mission’s visit to Tajikistan. 

UNDP’s Russian funded projects are aimed mainly at two areas of development: 1) Promotion of social and economic opportunities for youth and women living in rural Tajikistan and 2) solving climate related issues, including disaster risk reduction, awareness raising activities on the impact of human activities on climate, and additional resource mobilization to the country to solve climate related issues.

Ms. Pratibha Mehta, UNDP Resident Representative in Tajikistan, Mr. Igor Lyakin-Frolov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Tajikistan, and representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation will take part at the press conference.

Program of events open for media participation is attached.

Who? United Nations Development Program

What? Press conference of UNDP projects funded by the Government of the Russian Federation on promotion of social and economic opportunities and climate related issues

When? January 31, 2020 at 09.00

Where? UNDP office, 39, Aini St., Dushanbe, Tajikistan

For additional information please contact Rukhshona Nazhmidinova, Communications Analyst, UNDP in Tajikistan. E-mail: rukhshona.nazhmidinova@undp.org Tel: +992 44 6005596, 6005597, 6005600, 6005601