A Turkish official Thursday proposed to create a global humanitarian activity drive beneath the auspices of the United Nations to deal with pure disasters.
“The number of international search and rescue teams is not more than 12,000,” Cagri Erhan, member of Turkish Presidential Security and Foreign Policy Council, instructed a panel in New York.
Organized by the delegation of Turkish Presidency’s Communications Directorate, the occasion at Turkevi Center mentioned the impacts of pure disasters on worldwide relations.
Erhan talked concerning the difficulties the international search and rescue groups face together with visa points and communication issues.
The activity drive could be able to serve and succesful to succeed in to the catastrophe space inside 24 hours if they’d clearances from all international locations, he mentioned. He recommended that worldwide search and rescue groups be given humanitarian passports.
Erhan additionally proposed to create some worldwide humanitarian hubs for logistic causes all over the world via a global conference.
Kilic Bugra Kanat, analysis director on the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), mentioned that the extent of the disasters generates a situation that necessitates worldwide coordination and worldwide efforts.
“Whether it is wildfires, whether it is floods, whether it is natural disasters like earthquakes, necessitate sustainable international coordination to achieve both the recovery and reconstruction and the rebuilding of the areas,” he mentioned.
In a video message on the panel, Turkish Communications Director Fahrettin Altun mentioned: “Our country will never forget the helping hand,” following the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye.
“In the face of this great disaster, which no country can easily be prepared for and no state can fight alone, an unprecedented state and national solidarity has been revealed,” he added.
It was attended by Deputy Director of Communications Cagatay Ozdemir.
On Feb. 6, magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 earthquakes struck quite a few Turkish provinces, taking on 50,000 lives.
Around 14 million individuals in Türkiye have been affected by the quakes in addition to many others in northern Syria.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
