Overview

Chinese Government provides $1.2 million grant to support Chernobyl recovery effort

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$2,787,026

Commitment Year•2001Country of Activity•BelarusDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•BelarusSector•General Environmental ProtectionFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Pipeline: Commitment

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2001

Geospatial footprint

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The Chinese Government provides a grant to support Chernobyl recovery effort, from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23652365.

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Belarus

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Belarus

Loan description

Chinese Government provides $1.2 million grant to support Chernobyl recovery effort

Narrative

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Project narrative

On July 19, 2001, Chinese President Jiang Zemin promised his Belarus counterpart Alexander Lukashenko he would build closer ties with this isolated ex-Soviet republic, which had been shunned by the West. After the talks, Zemin signed over a $1.2 million grant agreement to help the country cope with the after-effects of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Belarus was one of the countries worst-hit by the radioactive cloud that resulted from the explosion of one of the reactors in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in neighboring Ukraine.

Staff comments

Belarus was not ODA-eligible from 2000 to 2004, so AidData has set the flow class variable to OOF-like.