Germany has joined an international project to restore Ukrainian cities #UN4Kharkiv-Mykolaiv and allocated EUR5 million.
As it was informed, the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has created working groups #UN4Kharkiv and #UN4Mykolaiv and invited international architects to help these cities develop future master plans. The British architect Norman Foster Foundation helps Kharkiv, while the global design and architectural company One Works (Italy) coordinates the work in Nikolaev.
It became known about the German side joining the projects during the online meeting of the working groups, which was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine, UNECE, the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, local governments of Mykolaiv and Kharkiv and other international organizations.
“Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression, we have been sending the most necessary aid to Ukraine. And at the same time we are thinking about how to support you in rebuilding after the end of the war, because it is necessary to prepare for this now. I personally received a task from the German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz to represent our country in this work,” said State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Jochen Flasbart.
He recalled that the G7 countries met last December, during which the member states expressed their understanding that Ukraine needed comprehensive assistance.
Flasbat said that the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development will provide the international project #UN4Kharkiv-Mykolaiv with financial support of EUR5 million.
“We are giving the “green light” and preparing funds so that these projects can be successfully implemented. We hope that the terrible war will end as soon as possible, and we will start rebuilding Ukraine,” Jochen Flasbarth makes plans for the future.
