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Mon, 29 Apr, 2013 12:01:09 AM
Hautala begins 5-day visit to Tajikistan
FTimes Report, April 29

 

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International Development Minister Heidi Hautala on Sunday left for Tajikistan on a five-day visit to discuss Finland’s development cooperation with Central Asian and East European countries scheduled to be launched next year.
 
During the visit, Finland and Tajikistan will sign a memorandum of understanding defining the main areas of cooperation, said a government press release.
 
The most important development cooperation projects are in the areas of promoting decent work, developing the preconditions for trade and the rule of law, and management of water resources as well as inter-institutional cooperation in which climate change management plays a key role.
 
Hautala’s visit also focuses on Finland’s development cooperation with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the two poorest countries of Central Asia, as a part of the programme.
 
The Finnish minister is scheduled to hold discussions on the situation in Tajikistan in particular and in Central Asia in general with representatives of the authorities, international organisations, and civil society bodies.
 
She will draw the Tajik authorities’ attention to instituting human rights in the country, in addition to the development issues. 
 
She will take part in a regional seminar titled ‘Ensuring women’s rights: law and practice’, which is a part of the project funded by Finland aimed at supporting the legal sector. Pekka Hallberg, former president of the Supreme Administrative Court and the legal ombudsmen of all Central Asian countries, will also attend the seminar.
 
Hautala will also visit the bordering areas with Afghanistan and the OSCE Border Management Staff College during her stay in Tajikistan.
 
Cooperation on border-related issues is especially important in an area that is pivotal, for instance, to drugs trade and human trafficking. In addition, the minister will become acquainted with the Geological Survey of Finland’s regional project on developing geological information systems and their transparency.
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