Today, PMR's MFA hosted the meeting of Deputy Foreign Minister of the PMR Vitaly Ignatiev with the delegation of the UNICEF Country Office in the Republic of Moldova headed by Chief of Section for Child Protection Silvia Lupan. Participating in the meeting were also Deputy Minister for Social Protection and Labour of the PMR Elena Rusina, senior specialist of the Department for Inspection, Childhood Protection and Social Support of the Ministry of Education of the PMR Elena Zhelyaskova and assistant to Deputy Chairperson of the Government of the PMR for Social Protection Tatiana Tsivinskaya.
In the course of the meeting, the sides discussed the number of projects implemented in Pridnestrovie with UNICEF support. In particular, interlocutors discussed survey of Pridnestrovian households within MICS 4 program, as well as program aimed at evaluation of childcare system in Pridnestrovie. As for the second project, it should result in expert report with recommendations on further steps on reforming the system of guardianship in Pridnestrovie. Realization of these projects, in its turn, may lay the basis for a new project in the framework of a bilateral cooperation between Pridnestrovie and UN Children's Fund.
Interlocutors paid special attention to recommendations proposed in the report by UN Senior Expert for Human Rights in Pridnestrovie Thomas Hammarberg in follow-up of his three visits to the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. UNICEF representatives expressed willingness to assist Pridnestrovie in realization of a number of initiatives proposed by Thomas Hammarberg in the sphere of healthcare and social protection.
At the end of the meeting, the sides highly assessed potential of a bilateral cooperation in socio-humanitarian sphere. Deputy Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev thanked UNICEF delegation for systemic attention to topical problems of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
