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Address
of H.E. Ms. R. Otunbayeva,
President of Kyrgyz Republic
At the annual meeting of stakeholders
of the UN Peacebuilding Fund
UN, New York, 22 November 2011
• October 30, 2011 – presidential
elections in Kyrgyzstan
• 62,52% of those who took part in the
elections voted for A. Atambayev.
• The first peaceful transfer of power
from one president to another in the
Central Asian region will be held at
the inauguration on December 1,
2011.
• The elections laid the foundation for
further strengthening the process of
building the first parliamentary
democracy in the region.
The price of democratic
transformations for Kyrgyzstan
• More than 90 people were killed during the
popular uprising in April of 2010. All in all, 1700
people suffered
• The provoked conflict in June of 2010 took the
lives of more than 400 people, and hundreds of
thousands ethnic Uzbeks were displaced.
• The economic development and infrastructure
of the south faced millions of dollars in damage.
Efforts towards the stabilization of the
situation: all measures of support from
international partners
• Referendum of accepting the Constitution,
amendment
• Parliamentary (October of 2010) and
presidential elections, recognized by all
observers
• Formation of public supervisory boards in the
ministries, and law enforcements
• Reformation of the court system
Special attention to the programs of restoration
of the infrastructure in the south and the support
to the reconciliation process
• Emergency aid for providing housing, food,
water and first aid to the suffered.
• Aid in restoration of documentation.
• Special attention to women, children, people
with special needs, and the socially vulnerable
population groups.
Joint efforts for elaboration of the proposal to
the UN Peacebuilding Fund:
• Government of Kyrgyzstan
• Special Representative of the UN Secretary
General, Head of the Regional Centre for
Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, M.
Jenca.
• UNDP, UNICEF, FAO, UNHCR, the UN Women,
UN OHCHR and WFP
• Local authorities, NGOs, communities, local
civil society activists
• Peacebuilding Fund took into
consideration the systematic
approach on the basis of the
Concept of Ethnic Policy and consolidation
• First installment: 3 million dollars, November
2010
• Second installment: 7 million US dollars, end
of July of 2011.
Components of the project: youth
• Professional-technical education for
young people from vulnerable
groups, their participation in
development works
• More than 1200 people took
courses of computer literacy,
Russian and English languages
• 17 youth centers in the
Osh and Jalal-Abad
regions are opened.
Components of the project:
women
• Women’s organizations are involved in
peacebuilding processes
• A Women’s Peace Network consisting
of different ethnic groups
is created
• Women participate in early warning and
situation monitoring
• Young “peace ambassadors”
are supported by the Women’s
Peace Network with a
component of interregional
youth communication
Components of the project:
reconstruction of the Uvam canal
• Span of 44 kilometers
• Provides water for 25 villages of
multiethnic composition with a population
of almost 100 thousand in the Kara-Suu
region.
• Promotes the increase of
wellbeing of families, preventing
conflicts related to water, creates the
basis for trust
• The canal now bears the name
“Friendship”
Components of the project: grants
for local communities
Projects are directed to:
• Reestablishment of infrastructure
• Search of new sources of funds for
existence
• Involvement of all communities and
ethnic groups
35 projects are already finished,
30 are being realized, and 25 new
projects are being planned.
Components of the project:
support of mass-media
• Strengthening the capacity of
the media on promoting
peace and tolerance.
• The development of practical
skills of journalists for
objective and balanced
reporting.
Components of the project:
administration of justice
• Working with prosecutors, judges
and lawyers on justice and
protection of human rights.
• Support for large-scale
judicial reforms, programs of
inter-regional rotation
of judges, elected by the new
procedures.
Initiatives of Kyrgyzstan in the field of
human rights
• Vice-chairmanship of the UN Council on
Human Rights.
• The signing of the UN Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
• Invitation of special Reporters of the UN:
– on torture
– freedom of peaceful assemblies and associations
– on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Context for programme
implementation:
• Strong, consistent civil society.
• Traditions of freedom of speech
and independent media.
• Transparency of resource
allocations have been effective to
absorb the funds of international
aid.
Indicators of the stabilization of the
situation:
• GDP growth from January to October was
9%, while revenues have exceeded
expectations.
• In addressing ethnic issues, the
Government takes into account most of
the recommendations of national and
international reports on events in the
south.
Priorities for the future (1):
• Community reconciliation programmes, the
integration of Uzbeks
• Reforming the language policy, the role of the
state language in the education system at all
levels
• Increase the capacity of the media, journalists
• The program for the economic empowerment
of women, access to financial and
informational resources
Priorities for the future (2):
• Program to expand the horizons and
improve the education of youth,
student exchange programs
• Psychological help for different
groups emerging from conflict:
women, children, policemen,
soldiers, etc.
Priorities for the future (3):
Reforming the security forces
- installation of CCTV cameras in places
where interrogations occur
- Training for police officers,
prosecutors, lawyers, judges
- Increase minority representation in
power structures
Conclusions:
• Kyrgyzstan can be an example of effective use of
international aid
• In 2010 the system worked smoothly and quickly:
the Government of Kyrgyzstan, the UN, the
Peacebuilding Fund, and NGOs have done
everything to mitigate the effects of the conflict
• Kyrgyzstan's experience demonstrates the role of
the UN in the modern architecture of peacebuilding and in response to emergency needs
Gratitude:
• UN Secretary General Ban KiMoon
• UN Peacebuilding Fund and
its Secretariat
• PBF donors
• The entire international
community for helping the
people of Kyrgyzstan
" Oh, My Lord! I beg you:
Keep in unity my people!
May his cattle be born and live,
May them multiply and fattened!
And may my people for hundreds years
Never know
Any troubles and sorrow!”
“Manas” epic, prayer of Manas
THANK YOU!