KYIV, 18 March 2016 – East Ukrainian Forum “Reconstruction through Dialogue: Mariupol”, hosted by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator, will take place on 23 March 2016, in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine.
The purpose of the event is to facilitate discussions between central and local authorities, civil society and expert community on ways of solving the most urgent issues related to people’s life in the areas affected by the conflict.
The Forum’s participants will focus on humanitarian demining, ways to improve access to Mariupol, business climate, humanitarian questions including issues of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and education.
Vaidotas Verba, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine; Vadym Boychenko, Head of Mariupol City Council; Serhiy Taruta, Member of Parliament; Mykola Movchan, Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports of Ukraine; Algirdas Šemeta, Business Ombudsman; Kostyantyn Anikonov, Deputy Head of Environmental Security and Mine Hazards Department of the Ministry of Defence; Oleh Bondar, Head of Humanitarian Demining Department of State Emergency Service, foreign diplomats and representatives of international organisations are among the experts of the Forum.
Media representatives are invited to attend the Forum that will start at 10:00 (registration from 9:30) at the premises of Mariupol State University (129, Budivel'nykiv Ave, Mariupol, Donetsk Region, Ukraine).
Journalists are kindly requested to confirm their participation to Andrii Dziubenko, National Programme Co-ordinator of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, by e-mail Andrii.dziubenko@osce.opg before 17:30 on Tuesday, 22 March 2016. For additional information call: + 380506767734.
This event is part of “Supporting Dialogue for Reforms Justice and Development” Project, implemented with the financial support from the Governments of Liechtenstein, Lithuania and Finland.
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