Georgia, UN sign partnership document
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Georgia and the United Nations (UN) have signed the document that outlines the future partnership of the two sides.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and UN Resident Coordinator in Georgia Niels Scott signed the UN Partnership for Sustainable Development (UNPSD), which outlined the strategic directions of the UN activities in the country over a five year period (2016-2020).
The framework aimed at delivering key results in the areas of democratic governance, jobs, livelihood and social protection, education, health, and human security and community resilience.
The signing ceremony took place in Tbilisi yesterday as the UN celebrated its 70th anniversary.
"Being a UN family member brings lots of benefits to Georgia,” PM Garibashvili said as he delivered a speech at the ceremony.
"We highly appreciate your recommendations and we are grateful for your continuous support.”
The PM stressed the importance of the UN’s role in global peace, especially now "when terror attacks became so frequent”.
Garibashvili said Georgia and the UN shared the same values and thanked the UN for its participation in the Geneva Discussions, which aimed to stabilithe the situation in Georgia’s breakaway regions.
Georgia has achieved a historic milestone and been granted a two-year membership to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), making it one of 47 member states responsible for promoting and protecting human rights around the world.
The United Nations (UN) has positively assessed Georgia’s reforms that aim to improve the human rights situation in the country.
The United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is going to increase its investments in Georgia by 30 percent in 2016.
The Georgian Government and the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are joining forces to reverse the tide of Georgian youth migration to cities in search of jobs and revitalise the agriculture sector, which is vital to 43 percent of the rural population.
The EU-UN commissioned report prepared by independent human rights expert Maggie Nicholson regarding Georgia’s National Human Rights Strategy for 2014-2020 praises the country’s “significant achievements” in human rights over the past six years and points at the issues which should be resolved.
Georgia has ranked 41st among 162 countries in the Human Freedom Index 2019, standing above all Caucasian and Central Asian countries. This fifth annual index used 76 distinct indicators of personal and economic freedom in the following areas:
A five-year cooperation plan between Georgia and the United Nations will aim to ensure steps towards sustainable and inclusive economy, decentralisation, benefits for the disabled and vulnerable and other areas, after the signing of the new UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework signed on Friday.
The UN Human Rights Council has demanded ‘immediate and unimpeded access be given to the office of the High Commissioner and international and regional human rights mechanisms’ to Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions.