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With best wishes and successful year for UN Moscow readership and staff!
Jean-Victor Gruat,
UN Resident Coordinator a.i.
On the occasion of the forthcoming New Year 2001 and the New Millennium it is whole heartedly that UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS staff members join me in wishing you Peace, Happiness, Prosperity and every success in your personal and professional endeavours!
Philippe Elghouayel,
UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS
Resident Representative
On the occasion of fast approaching 2001, I would like to wish all of us – UN representatives and Russian partners alike – a good businesslike spirit, productive projects and fresh ideas. Further developing our major common slogan of today “The UN works” let me say: “The UN works rather than talks”!
Alexander Gorelik,
Director of the UN Information Center
Merry Christmas and Happy New Yeàr. I wish you all happiness, peace and a fresh start in the New Millennium!
Toby Lanzer,
Head of the UN OCHA Office
Let the creative diversity be our method in the New Millenium and the diverse creativity – our subject.
Wolfgang Reuther,
Director of UNESCO, Moscow
I wish you all the best for the New Year and believe that our joint efforts will make the New Millennium world AIDS-free!
Arkadiusz Majszyk,
UNAIDS Representative
Wishing all the friends af the United Nations in Russia a very happy Christmas, and all the best for 2001 – the Year of the UN Special Session for Children! Best wishes,
Rosemary McCreery,
UNICEF Representative
We extend warm greetings and heart-felt wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You!
Anatoly Torkunov,
Chairman of UNA-Russia, Rector of MGIMO
WHO Office of the Special Representative of the Director General wishes better health and happiness for all people in Russia. You will find that key for better health is in your own pocket. By quitting smoking you can improve your health more than any pill could do!
Mikko Vienonen,
WHO Special Representative
Happy New Year 2001! I wish peace and prosperity to you and your families in the New Millennium!
John McCallin,
UNHCR Regional Representative
Dear friends! Best wishes for the X-mass and Happy New Year! Let’s hope that New Year and our joint efforts would make this world better!
Bruno Dato
UNODCCP Representative
In a forthcoming New Year and Millennium UNEP wishes lovely environment in their families and outsides and their ecologically sound dreams and intentions coming true!
Alexander Gudyma,
UNEP Representative
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The conservation of Taimyr’s unique nature wealth and diversity dominated the discussions in Dudinka and Norilsk, the first week of November 2000. Mr. Gennady Nedelin, the Governor of Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, Taimyr and Norilsk industrial enterprises, and environmental scientists and experts discussed the urgent need to preserve and enhance the balance between the economic development and preservation of the globally significant biodiversity of the peninsula. “The Arctic ring” Foundation, a local NGO, participated in the meetings along with community and indigenous peoples’ representatives.
The UNDP and Global Environment Facility mission to Taimyr discussed the framework of the project “Conserving Globally Significant Biodiversity of Taimyr including its Keystone Population of Wild Reindeer: A Demonstration.
In July 2000 UNDP/GEF and the “The Arctic ring” Foundation started the first phase of the project. Mining, industrial and transport activities in the region have modified the ecosystem and wild reindeer migration routes.
Mr. Gennady Nedelin, the Governor of Taimyr, reaffirmed the strong commitment of his administration to support and participate actively in the project. He assured Mr. Philippe Elghouayel, UNDP Resident Representative, that the Taimyr administration will help to implement the project and contribute to its financing.
The first stage of the project is planned to end in springhood. The project is currently assessing the threats to biodiversity conservation,
the socio-economic conditions, the legal and regulatory framework, and the role of indigenous people in the reindeers migration process. A key and constructive link has been established by the project team with major industrial firms in the Okrug.
Consensus was reached between ecologists, the Administration and the industrial enterprises about the necessity of urgent measures to preserve the environment of the peninsula. The representatives of the State Committee of Taimyr on Ecology, the Research Institute for Ecology and Evolution, Norilsk Nickel and the Norilsk Gazprom commited to continue to support the project and all initiatives that will encourage a balanced approach to biodiversity conservation of the peninsula’s preservation of the unique nature and economic development.
UNDP/GEF Programe coordinator Peter Newton.
Tel.: (095)787-2100,
fax: (095)787-2101
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On December 18, 2000, the hearings of the draft 2000 National Human Development Report were held at the Conference Hall of the Russian Cultural Foundation in Moscow. Philippe Elghouayel, UNDP Resident Representative in the Russian Federation, chaired the event attended by Government officials, prominent scientists, foreign diplomats, as well as representatives of international and Russian non-governmental organizations.
The central theme of this year’s Report is globalization. The authors also looked into some specific issues affecting human development in Russia, such as drug abuse and crime prevention, migration and the role of the media. The draft report contains a wealth of updated statistical data as well as the results of public opinion polls, reflecting the perception of the society to the current socio-economic situation, and to the pace and methods of the reforms. As in 1998 and 1999, the report contains a comparative analysis of the situation in the Russian regions and the human development index for all 89 regions of the Russian Federation.
The UNDP Women’s Management Center the Irkutsk Region moved forward thanks to a new agreement with the initiative of the American Cancer Society.
This non-governmental organization, pursuing the task of helping people suffering from cancer and assisting their families and close relations, dedicated US$35,000 to the creation of the Irkutsk Regional Oncology Center.
It will be based in Irkutsk within the UNDP project, in cooperation with the regional administration.
The Administration of the Irkutsk Region manifests strong support towards the American organization for the creation of a non-governmental structure in Russia based on the model of the American Cancer Society for the promotion of healthy lifestyles, and the prevention of cancer.
The idea itself was born in summer 1999. The mission of UNDP’s project manager Galina Kalinaeva and a group of experts from the Irkutsk Women’s Management Center and the management of the Irkutsk Regional Oncology Center was held in summer 2000 to New York and New Jersey where they took part in a special seminar to which they were cordially and warmly welcomed. It prompted the launching of the project.
At the seminar, the specifics of the professional and voluntary work of the members of the American Cancer Society, rules for contact with patients and their relatives, and moral support to the patients and their close relations was explained in detail. However, the most important is that women from America and from Russia reached mutual understanding on many issues. The American Cancer Society offered to share its rich experience in this area and to contribute to its implementation in Russia.
Project manager Galina Kalinaeva.
Tel.: (095)787-2100 ,
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Mr. Frederic Claus, UNDP programme officer, and Mr. Rachid Alouach, project manager, visited Rostov on Don October 18–19 with the purpose to launch the extension of the project on juvenile justice in this region, following the funding agreement between the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and UNDP signed on July 19, 2000.
A number of meetings with relevant representatives of the judiciary, law-enforcement, local Administration and NGO have been conducted under the auspices of the Regional Court of Rostov in collaboration with the City Prosecutor’s office’s and the Regional Judicial Department.
The main objectives of the mission were to present the project on juvenile justice in presence of all city agencies dealing with young offenders including local educational services and NGO, to introduce a coordinated mechanism at regional level necessary to ensure the effective collaboration and implementation of the project tasks and to agree on objectives and mechanisms for implementing the pilot project in six areas of the city.
The mission and the local side agreed to shift the response of the system towards young offenders from a correctional and repressive approach to an educational and rehabilitative one, in looking at the personal background of the Young offender and especially his social, psychological and educational environment. The participants of the project will try to develop partnership with existing social services (governmental and non-governmental) to help the law enforcement and judicial professionals enhance the number of alternatives necessary for working with young offenders in a rehabilitative way. In this regard the social worker introduced in each pilot location will be able to ensure this interaction between the above mentioned organizations.
The role of the social worker whose intervention will be required as early as at the time of the investigation is very important in the implementation of the project. Indeed, the investigator receiving the new case of a young offender will contact the judge and request that the social worker be involved in helping him drawing the psycho-social portrait of the young offender. On the basis of the collected information, the social worker will present a full portrait of the child and his environment, and suggest possible rehabilitative measures to be taken to avoid the child’s pre-trial detention, but ensuring his appropriate supervision before trial. The role of the social worker will not be to implement himself the rehabilitative measures but to build partnerships with various organizations willing to take the responsibility of supervising the child and monitor the progress of the measure.