11/06/2010
A cross-border cooperation plan between Vietnam’s An Giang province and Cambodia’s Kandal province on emergency flood prevention and control were discussed at a seminar in the Mekong delta province on November 5.
Manager of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) in Cambodia Chum Vuthy presented his plan on flood prevention and control and emergency management for the two provinces.
Vuthy’s plan focuses on building stone embankments along the common border and devising legal mechanism on humanitarian aid in emergency cases.
The two provinces agreed to share knowledge and experiences in search and rescue work in flooding season and cooperate in rescuing flood victims in the Mekong river.
In emergency cases, local authorities will allow humanitarian aid to be transported to their flood victims, they said.
The two provinces’ leaders will discuss measures to prevent river bank erosion and minimise its impacts on people living along the border.
Both An Giang and Kandal provinces will cooperate in preventing epidemics, particularly diarrhoea, and their health departments and medical clinics will provide vaccines to people along the border.
The two provinces also asked the ADPC for the Mekong River Commission’s financial assistance to their joint flood fighting exercises and rescue activities and the exchange of information on early storm and floods warning for both sides.
VNA/VOVNews
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