Uzbekistan: ICRC to hand over education programme
02-04-2004 News Release 04/49
On 26 March the Ministries of Public Education and of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of Uzbekistan, the ICRC and the Red Crescent Society of Uzbekistan signed an agreement that sets a handover date for a programme that the ICRC has been supporting for several years and that is aimed at spreading knowledge of international humanitarian law in the country’s secondary schools and universities.
Under the agreement, instructors will be trained with a view to developing a solid teaching base for the programme, which will be handed over to the authorities in 2007. A similar agreement was signed with the Ministry of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic on 9 March.
For further information, please contact:
Graziella Leite Piccolo, ICRC Tashkent, tel. ++ 99 871 120 5290/91