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Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 4 November 2014 – In a series of high-level meetings in Bishkek, His Highness the Aga Khan met with the Kyrgyz President Mr Almazbek Atambayev, Speaker of the Parliament Mr Asylbek Sharypovich Jeenbekov, Prime Minister Mr Djoomart Otorbaev and Minister of Education Mr Kanat Sadykov to discuss cooperation between the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).

 

The Aga Khan is the founder and chairman of AKDN, a group of agencies working in economic, social and cultural development in the Kyrgyz Republic since 2000. He is also the Chancellor of the University of Central Asia (UCA), which was founded by him and the Presidents of the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan to offer an internationally recognised standard of higher education and prepare graduates to contribute leadership, ideas and innovation to the economies and communities of the region.

AKDN has been engaged in the Kyrgyz Republic since 2000 operating the Aga Khan School in Osh, the Aga Khan Music Initiative, the First Microcredit Company, the Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank (KICB), Jubilee Insurance Kyrgyzstan and the Aga Khan Foundation working in Osh and Naryn in the fields of rural development, early childhood development, health, education and disaster reduction.

The Aga Khan is in the Kyrgyz Republic to review, and brief government partners on, progress of AKDN initiatives, including construction of UCA’s Naryn campus in advance of the University’s opening in 2016.