The Czech Republic pledged to spend 0.17 percent of GDP on it by 2010. However, after the Czech Republic's unsuccessful candidature for the post of an elected member of the U.N.
Security Council (UNSC) last year Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said this might make the government reconsider its humanitarian and development aid. Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said earlier the sum should be increased. Kohout said the Czech Republic spent some 3.6 billion crowns on the Czech press survey ...
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Czech-U.S. radar treaty to include chapter on link with NATO ... development aid annually. "Naturally, there are some limitations given by the economic development and situation as well as the government's effort to curb the state deficit," Kohout said. Kohout said that due to the falling dollar, the Czech Republic's development aid was growing in absolute figures. The government report mainly relates to the financing of development aid in 2009. This is why the Czech Development Agency was recently established. It is gradually accepting the agenda from other spheres of the civil service, Kohout said. During the Czech Republic' EU presidency in the first half of 2009, Prague wants to focus not only on the right use of development aid, but also on energy generation, environmental protection and changes in the climate, Kohout said. The priorities will also encompass the creation of legal and social conditions for development assistance. "These are the things that chiefly relate to the 'good governance,'" Kohout said. The money has been spent on projects in the "priority" countries: Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yemen, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Montenegro, Vietnam and Zambia, Kohout said, adding that there were also major projects in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the Afghan province of Logar, the Czech provincial reconstruction team (PRT) has been established that includes ten civilian experts on water management, construction and agricultural projects.
(Ceske Noviny)
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