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A High Level Meeting on the Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - UNDRR) was held at the UN Headquarters in New York, from 18 to 19 May. In the margins of the meeting, an event on "Regional Cooperation: enhancing national resilience and preparedness" was organized on 18 May by the Permanent Mission of Israel, in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Cyprus, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Union for the Mediterranean.
In his introductory speech, Mr. George Bustras, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Cyprus on Civil Defence and Security Issues, stressed, among other things, that Cyprus is particularly interested in developing further capabilities in the field of civil protection, especially through regional cooperation. He underlined in this regard that trilateral and multilateral cooperation, as well as the 3+1 format (Cyprus, Israel, Greece + USA) can help to develop a "positive agenda" in the Southeast Mediterranean region, with a background of civil protection and humanitarian action. Referring to disasters such as the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, as well as the growing climate crisis, he stressed that they highlight the need for regional cooperation in the field of civil protection. He cited as examples of such regional cooperation the PDEX-JIP project funded by the European Civil Protection Mechanism, in which Jordan, Israel and Palestine cooperated on the basis of a major earthquake scenario.
The meeting was moderated by Israel's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Gilad Erdan, while the panel of speakers included, in addition to Mr. Captain Laurent Alfonso, European Affairs Officer at the French Ministry of Interior, Mr. Sean Card from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Mr. Gil Gilbert Bustra. Kobi Wimisberg, Director of Strategic Cooperation and Assistance of Israel.
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