Franz Ring, German ambassador to Nepal on Monday, opened a new $7million GTZ project “Support of measures enhancing the peace process” that aims to support the ongoing peace process in Nepal.
Addressing a function organized to launch the project Ring said that the project aims at improving the living conditions in the Maoist cantonments and surrounding communities.
“The German development projects have been in a position to start providing assistance already since November 2006 in the areas of health services, medication and access roads, improving the sanitation in the cantonments and the surrounding areas as well as organizing surgical camps”, said Ring.
Ring also said that the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation provided civic and voter education to support the Constituent Assembly (CA) polls.
The project is among the series of activities the government of Germany to support the peace process in Nepal.