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created twenty years ago to deal with emergency situations. sufficiency very quickly. so difficult the guinness book of records since then has been improving its reputation. working in different locations it has accumulated unique know how that it's now ready to share. says the. great opportunity to gain valuable experience from the. first time that. taking place in moscow. international recognition.

yes the form of this economy is convening in moscow for the first time and the fact that it's been held in moscow certainly sort of a recognition of russia's efforts over the past twenty years during which russia has fought natural disasters jointly with the international community so it's a great honor for us to hold such a forum at home but yes of course and we hope that a second and third forum will follow while they be held in moscow to know you know these are international gatherings of rescuers and firefighters it's like international youth last words which are used to have in the past will they be meeting every year which is the way not necessarily maybe every year or every two years but it will be held regularly so there's going to be regular exercises will be held at the emergency ministry training grounds and on the sidelines of the forum demonstrate our skills and abilities what russian technologies are you going to demonstrate and how exactly are you going to surprise your foreign colleagues first of all will demonstrate high emergency two colleges which we use when it's

necessary to rescue people and extinguish wires this is russian aviation complexes are robots and one clear or so who participate in relief operations. so it's everything that can save human lives in this way or another of. the missions why is it necessary to demonstrate these technologies to foreign colleagues is that they don't have similar technologies meet or do you just want to show them that russia also has advanced technical. know certainly not very well what kind of technologies and equipment our colleagues abroad have one on one hand this demonstration is a chance to share experience and on the other hand this is a possibility for us to advance our innovations on the world market and we've learned from our own experience that this is necessary for rescue operations but. tell me mr grossman when you talk about innovation do you mean some specific piece of equipment so. just a vehicle a saw our radar or is it

a technology and an organizational aspects i would say that these are at you colleges because a good song in itself will be just an ordinary tool without a person cooperate so that's why we're go into focus on technologies we're not going to just demonstrate a helicopter as such will demonstrate it in combination with an eel someone his six year old craft should give her and they create the global radius technology near craft air lift a helicopter to any part of the world where the helicopter will then carry out rescue reconnaissance or other operations but this is our technology. as far as i know the russian emergencies ministry is a member of the international civil defense organization it's an advisory body but i've talked to your colleagues including the minister many time secure there's an opinion that a supranational emergency situations reaction center a kind of international emergencies minister should be set up are you going to

discuss this question as in moscow for him. do you think this idea will be implemented in the near future or not. booking it well naturally the forum is ready to hold a afridi scutcheon on any subject the most urgent theme in a source of universal concern which you see how to make our world safe for him in terms of catastrophes in natural calamities that are striking now with some of our international partners have even refused to attend a forum they say that about to me when people in india are being stranded in the flood stricken areas. this is what maurice. but practical interest will certainly promote good discussion of we should unite our efforts or to fill in the they can mean sphere is where the work of rescuers and firefighters has been insufficient you should get united this is what the forum. it's going to discuss what do you

mean by a uniting efforts that is it new choices can switch over it existed the moment or is it the creation of a supra national body like the world government a center that's going to monitor the global situation. but you know we are totally devoid of such credit conditions because there is the united nations the european union in europe korea the shanghai cooperation organization for example that there are plenty of such platforms which cover the entire world but we're talking about in a detail so that make a rescue operation more energetic and effective and help avoid intermissions in our rescue work this is what we have learned from our prop tickle experience if you are finding a fire you cannot make a fifteen minute commercial break this work should never interrupt this soon or it starts the better with you people is exactly the same we all know the parameters of

saving people after earthquakes there is a chance to find survivors only in the first two hours after an earthquake and after that the only thing rescuers can do is to clear away the rubble that is why we are not going to discuss this issues in bureaucratic terms who will think of how to complete international mechanisms with the more efficient actions to college years well more persistent information sharing which may result in some large scale managerial solutions indeed i would not use the word global name maybe or regional for example if the usual you just said that you are avoiding craddock on the dishes but for a professional and bishan is the russian emergencies ministry has plenty and i know that your colleagues are proud of being merely the best service in the world but still is there anything which the russian ministry of emergency situations can still learn from foreign colleagues use. of course the results can. tell us about

it in more detail. well first of all we have a program for preparing our central. rescue team which will take a special pride in it to undergo an international test we want this team to be all recognized is the most efficient unit have a rescue team it should be out on the international list of top priority teams. we are learning from other teams of such status and i believe our team will pass this test to with owners casual. all right what about the vice versa process does the russian emergency ministry teach professionalism for the countries in your sleep of course it does and they know very well what they can learn from us. and they address us persistently asking us to people and so we do.

for instance so we have classes for a vietnamese rescue or skin against you also we train rescuers you know higher and secondary educational institutions and in different centers for firefighters or rescuers and so on which of if we teach her colleagues you know other countries as well and the premier for instance we are opening intense classes in serbia for all balkan states with whom i can mention a driving school in rwanda even though it was in the heart of africa on september the first if there was a line of young men who wanted to lay down their guns and learn to do it peaceful job mode rescuers. were training is a mutual pro says sometimes we'll learn and take tests and sometimes we teach others war to make fire fighters for instance which is the most far fighter is sold the cia soon know. other nearby countries such as dippold an eastern europe had to

learn far fighting tactics in the soviet union and today there are saying that those step to really work at the. foreign colleagues receive any practical training and the emergency ministry teams in russia. come one come home and find the music farm and extinguishing a fire at their place. well first of all it's not that scary i have to say are companies that are. i know it isn't but people may get surprised. and secondly you learn and take born in exercises together moreover we participate together in search and rescue and fire extinguishing in humanitarian operations and we're always happy to meet our graduates there as we know there are partners. who send their workers to learn from their us or our chinese colleagues. and we

certainly internal to all countries mainly. we are mostly interested in the experience of the g eight countries also we like original classes for instance seemed a poor has a good training base who are her colleagues from asian states who get together to learn we don't just learn their standards so we also learn working in particular conditions which our colleagues demonstrate to us because we get of course. says he but i think a director of the international department at the russian ministry spotlight will be back shortly after a break so we'll continue this interview in less than a minute stay with.

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welcome back to spotlight i'm now going over and just in the mind of the my guest in the studio today is he would direct to the international department had the russian had an urgency to ministry. he says that some states wouldn't be able to participate in this forum in moscow due to emergencies in their countries. you mentioned india. what other countries are having emergencies. i mean at the port just pakistan and china were expecting riskier storm china but do they said they were having a rough time with the landslides but they will send some more presented gives

anyway you could go also some african states didn't send their workers even with because didn't they have some terrible floods in europe how did they cope cope with them alright for instance friday we signed of cooperation agreement with roy. of course we invited them to the forum so we left croatia on friday and the next day if huge flood began. was filled with water there for a colleague said thank you but we cannot come now. is the russian emergency ministry working in any other countries at the moment it certainly is it was can you tell us where that was in china india and pakistan no not really we are participating in. just human nature in operations presently as for pakistan we have already sent emergency help there now we are beginning the deployment all for the second stage of the operation but of the world will continue

sending chancellor medicines and other supplies and we'll do it in cooperation with our. professional partner with the international civil defense organization that you mentioned. also we participated in new york call to help because we support the world health organization and the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs these are our partners oversee the entire international response framework. the third stage of the operation starts today in serbia our mind clearers we have just finished working with our rescue workers are ready to respond we have current projects for supplying food for instance we're being sending flour and other supplies into armenia as well as through g q stan and afghanistan. as the

director of the international department can you give us the number of countries that the emergency ministry has helped over the past year. if not the fifteen countries do you mean in two thousand and nine or in two thousand and ten i mean in two thousand and ten. so you held fifteen countries already yes we have and we are marking our twentieth anniversary now well let's take a look at the history of the russian and the agency's ministry in a report by spotlights to me that. fifty thousand lives will lost in armenia in this big talk earthquake more than twenty years ago. it was destroyed the rescue operation was chaotic so that officials when trading for disaster on the scale lesson was learned the decision was made to create a special rescue workers now which is considered to be one of the best in europe if

there's an emergency situation in any part of the world and experts for assistance . christmas two thousand and four tsunami is he eleven countries killing more than two hundred twenty five thousand people a russian rescue helicopter helped search for survivors and planes brought more than one hundred fifty tons of humanitarian aid to the devastated region a year when new orleans was hit by hurricane katrina was there to help in the off to moscow one of the west nature in america's history russian risk is delivered more than sixty tons of humanitarian aid to the hurricane victims. the russian rescue team also to coordinate operations in myanmar two years ago when the country was heated by tropical cyclon which killed at least seventy eight thousand people and left thousands more homeless this year the russian hospital was sent to haiti to help victims of the earthquake the doctors there performed around fifty

operations russian psychologists also helped survivors cope with the shock of the work of the russian rescue organizations humanitarian missions virtually covers the world each year and more than one hundred thousand people that's the equivalent of russian teams seven twelve people in our. looking back over the history of the emergency ministry was there a particular rescue operation which are people still remember as the most difficult legendary something or do you consider every new operation that's ahead of you had to be the hardest one. of course every emergency situation is unique in its own way and the same applies to you operations. during the past twenty years were there for more than three hundred twenty operations in other countries which included humanitarian operations school search and rescue operations medical help and of

accusation and fire extinguishing food of course. we specially remember our first operations in the early one nine hundred ninety s. immediately after our agency was established we became involved in the ancient national response system. and actually we surprised everyone when we beat many european countries and showed up in syria in response to the un call for help it is the well ahead of many other countries that were involved in the operation he's going to chose the story that if you go in one thousand nine hundred ninety three we signed an agreement with the office so the united nations high commissioner for refugees. we learned from experience self swedish and german crews. we saw that things were gone bad in yugoslavia they had the war but they had the battle in vancouver and bref you g.'s and of course russia

couldn't stay away from it but i wouldn't just send supplies here we said we would fully participate in the humanitarian operation. we made our decision in december the government approved it in january and in early february or in the crew when we departed from the ganske and. of course we selected professionals who knew how to drive in the mountains they were out in belgrade loaded up their trucks immediately and two days later they were unloading them in syria of a. city that really needed humanitarian aid food in the made a sense to literally save people from perishing you know our current drove through the mountains in the cold of winter and along the way they helped this swedish team out there illegals that were stuck because we had come us six by six trucks with

a great drivers so on the one hand. this is how you establish close ties with calling us from other countries and on the other hand want the u.n. to clear it immediately they couldn't do without the russian crew any more and indeed for the next to forty to seventy years we were doing un tasks all the time but we were delivering aid to the most difficult areas of the closed and calm swer battles were reaching across the front lines and so on representing the us such was our first experience that began in one thousand nine hundred three so this is showing good headlines does the russian an urgent and then a few rescues twelve people an hour that makes for one person in every five minutes or over three hundred people a day that's true and i believe it is does that mean russia is such an unsafe country. that on it all countries are according to the

international statistics our country doesn't stand out in comparison pakistan for example has twenty million people in the flood risk zone that's a big number. and russia fires were the main threat last summer for the forest fires the bog fires there was the smog this proved that prevention is probably more crucial than rescue. the emergency ministry is an extremely efficient structure. why won't it take the job of preventing such catastrophes or is it whether to do so. but if we are ready to do so prevention is one of our key tasks actually along with eliminating the consequences of disasters. there are other sectors and mechanisms that should be functioning along with the prevention system of the russian emergency ministry and indeed in those four years

demonstrated the need for it to come prehensile approach both at the national and international levels. and we did receive significant assistance from other countries during this period with naturally more entitle to speak about international aspects. were helped by those advanced technologies that you mentioned to you know we gratefully received assistance from the air forces of many other countries and we look at them and russia's launch territory requires more bille equipment with them from the aircraft that can be here to do somewhere else tomorrow helping to stop fires as they approach cities and other important infrastructure rob ships them so the international community in our case saw that it is very efficient to invite

a specific aid. because you know we'll take tsunami for instance with you they were asking for any kind of help anyone as they objectively needed it there but here in the european part of russia we were grateful for advanced technologies and indeed they sent us a very experienced crew is that we're just side by side with our foreign men but if they sent aircraft and helicopters that were working in food coronation with already or forces thank you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind that my guest in this thing here today was actually come directly on the end of that. department of the russian and the agency's ministry and that's it for the hour from all of us here if you want to have your say and spotlight quiet someone more into you think i speak to you next time to drop me a line and i'll do no ads. are you and let's keep spotlight interactive movie back with more free time comments on the what's going on in and outside russia until

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