EC Allocates Funds to Rehabilitate Breakaway Region
Several new projects to help in rehabilitating the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone will be financed under a 2,5 million euros grant from the European Commission (EC) brokered by the OSCE Mission to Georgia, the OSCE Mission to Georgia reported on February 2.
The parties to the Georgian-Ossetian conflict signed in Tskhinvali, the capital of breakaway South Ossetia on January 31 a Memorandum of Understanding on rehabilitation projects.
Some of the projects will focus on the rehabilitation of basic infrastructure to benefit both the resident population and returnees; others will support the voluntary return of refugees and internally displaced people to their previous places of residence.
The projects will be implemented by the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and will involve Georgian and Ossetian experts.
