The Chancellor praised the World Bank’s leadership and efforts to provide timely and innovative solutions to further support countries in need, including the recently approved Development Policy Loan for Ukraine and the Crisis Facility for the International Development Association (IDA), which will further mobilise donor resources in Ukraine, Moldova, and IDA countries. Ms. Balčytyte pointed out that more than half of all financial assistance disbursed to Ukraine to date has been mobilised through the World Bank with the support of the donor community.
Ms. Balčytytė emphasized that Lithuania was one of the first countries to implement reconstruction projects in Ukraine.
“We keep saying that Ukraine’s partners should not wait for Day X, ‘when the war is over’, but that work on Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction should start now, with tangible and visible efforts that are globally relevant,” the Chancellor said.
Lithuanian efforts have already led to the establishment of a mobile settlement and the reconstruction of a destroyed school in Borodianka, the rebuilding of a kindergarten in Irpin, and the modernisation of the electricity supply system in Mykolaiv.
The reconstruction of Ukraine was also addressed at the meeting between the Chancellor of the Government and the Deputy Executive Director of UN Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, Mr. Michal Mlynár. The parties discussed possible cooperation between Lithuania and the UN in identifying key needs in the reconstruction of medium and small towns in Ukraine, as well as reconstruction projects for these towns.
