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"When natural disasters occurred in other countries, we will actively take part in international rescue work as we did before," said Zhao Heping, deputy director of the administration, at a press conference of the Asian-Pacific Regional Earthquake Exercise, which ended yesterday in Since 2003, the team has been to five international search and rescue missions: The 2003 magnitude 6.7 The CISAR team did a demonstration exercise yesterday to 17 foreign national search and rescue teams from the Asian-Pacific region, Europe and Arjun Katoch, chief of the Field Coordination Support Section of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' Emergency Services Branch, spoke highly of the CISAR team's performance. "The work of the CISAR team was up to international standards, no matter where they are working," he told China Daily. Katoch said the CISAR team should also enhance its level of professional training. Sources said a research and rescue professional training center will be established in "I hope the training facilities could also serve professionals from other countries," Katoch said. Zhao said the equipment standard of the CISAR team should be updated. "The equipment, adopted when the CISAR team was established, was up to international standards five years ago. But the equipment is now somewhat out of fashion," he said. The safety of CISAR team members in rescues overseas should be better guaranteed, Zhao said. The official said improvements will be made in these fields, and the team's air-transportation ability, in coming years to make the CISAR team more capable in international search and rescue work. ( |
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