The Conference will take place in the Peace Palace in The Hague (The Netherlands) from 11 until 13 June 2008. The Conference will lead to an agenda for the development of the role of local governments in the field of conflict prevention, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction.
A meeting of the Organizational committee of International forum “Megacity XXI century” was held in Moscow on the 16th of January. On the meeting the course of preparation of International forum “Megacity XXI century” and of the first international parade-competition for the title “The best city of Commonwealth of Independent States” was considered.
The Association of cities of the Kyrgyz Republic has sent its own comments re draft of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Local Self-Government and Local State Administration” to the address of central government bodies.
On the 15th of January a session of Tokmok city kenesh (city parliament) was held. The question on election of mayor of Tokmok city was put on the agenda.
The text of the draft of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On the order of solving of the questions on administrative-territorial system of the Kyrgyz Republic” is placed on our web-site in the section “Projects of normative legal acts”.
A council on question of reforms of Housing and Communal Services (HCS) was held in the Government under the chairmanship of First vice prime-minister Aidyraliev I.R.
The Association of Cities of the Kyrgyz Republic has sent the Declaration for the Paper “On democracy at the local level and decentralization in the states of Euro- Asiatic region” to Regional Section for Euro-Asia of the World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments
According to this draft, the country transfers from the two-level to the three-level budget and there will be created reserve funds attached to governors of oblasts and akims (head) of rayons of The Kyrgyz Republic.