神马文学网Nicaragua, Russia sign agt on coop against natural calamities
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Nicaragua, Russia sign agt on coop against natural calamities
11.11.2009, 10.57
GUATEMALA, November 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu and Commander in Chief of the Nicaraguan Armed Forces Omar Halleslevens have concluded an agreement on cooperation in the sphere of coping with the aftermath of natural calamities. The agreement that expires next year was concluded on Tuesday within the framework of the Russian delegation’s visit to the Nicaraguan capital.
In accordance with the concluded agreement, Russia will provide assistance to Nicaragua in order to help it raise efficiency of response efforts to natural cataclysms. It envisages, in particular, the exchange of scientific and technical information, as well as sharing with the Nicaraguan side the Russian experience in taking preventive measures against natural calamities and coping with them.
Speaking at the signing ceremony Shoigu noted that the population and infrastructure of Nicaragua often suffer from earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and volcano eruptions. “The signed document will become a basis for the modernisation of structures of the national emergency response system,” he noted.
Halleslevens for his part noted, in accordance with the agreement the Nicaraguan army will in a short period of time receive from Russia equipment, special machinery and assistance in the training of personnel for liquidating the natural disasters’ aftermath. The Russian Federation will simultaneously offer help to Nicaragua in the liquidation of minefields remaining in the country’s territory since the times of the internal armed conflict.
According to experts, a total of over 179 thousand anti-personnel mines were planted in the territory of Nicaragua in the 1980s. Almost 175 mines have been rendered harmless since 1989 when the mine clearing operation started.