““I care for a humanitarian response, and a pause for 90 days from the key donor cannot but be confused,” said OP Deputy Head of OP”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
In her social networks, Vereshchuk called the decision “unexpected and unpleasant news” for the authorities and the public sector.
“I care for a humanitarian response, and a pause for 90 days from the key donor can not but be confused,” she said.
OP representative, however, expressed confidence that the situation in the humanitarian sphere would be able to stabilize.
“In the near future, we will start subject consultations with our American partners in order to continue the financing of humanitarian response projects in Ukraine. While we stabilize the situation, people we need to keep people and work out, ”Vereshchuk added.
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The day before, the Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Oksana Zholnovich stated that the stop financing of international programs from the United States would be more noticeable to the public sector than for large budget projects.
The fact that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Ukraine has ordered all the projects and expenditures on them, reported on January 26, “Public” with reference to an unnamed USAID office in Kiev.
According to him, detailed instructions have not yet received office staff. Officially, the situation was not commented on the USAID.
The message appeared after the US State Department has ordered the freezing new financing of almost all US external assistance programs in the framework of President Donald Trump’s desire to “bring these programs in line with its foreign policy purposes.”