By empty (11/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will render technical assistance to Kyrgyz government; an agreement on it was signed at the IAEA headquarters on November 27; a REGNUM correspondent was informed at Kyrgyz foreign ministry press office. Kyrgyzstan Ambassador to the OSCE and other international organizations in Vienna Rina Prizhivoyt signed the agreement form the Kyrgyz side; the IAEA Deputy Director General, Director of Technical Cooperation Department Anna Maria Chetto – from the side of the IAEA. According to the agreement, Kyrgyzstan received possibility to start together with the IAEA realization of national projects about $2mln worth in the sphere of preservation of the environment and medicine, as well as completely to use potential of the IAEA to settle acute problems such as radioactive waste, protection of nuclear materials, treatment of oncological diseases at the sum of $2mln environmental protection.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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