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    Tajikistan: Central Asia to adopt unified law on earthquakes

    ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow
    2 Dec 04


    Dushanbe, 2 December: A special unified law "On earthquakes", like the
    one already in force in Armenia and China, will be adopted in Central
    Asian states. A agreement on this was reached at the first Central
    Asian consultative meeting on reducing the risk of natural disasters
    which ended in Dushanbe today, the Tajik deputy minister of emergency
    situations and civil defence, Islom Usmonov, has told an ITAR-TASS
    correspondent.

    He said that all countries in the region were in a high seismic
    activity zone. Each of them is potentially exposed to sudden
    earthquakes. "However, joint efforts are needed to clean up the
    aftermath," Usmonov said.

    He said that representatives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
    and Uzbekistan had also agreed to draw up a joint plan on reducing the
    risk of natural disasters. It is planned to develop the necessary
    legal base and to conduct constant monitoring and train people in how
    to act in the event of an emergency situation.

    According to the data from the European Community Humanitarian Office,
    natural disasters, including floods and earthquakes, claimed the lives
    of 2,500 people and caused damage to 5.5m people in Central Asia over
    the last decade, that is, to 10 per cent of the total population of
    the region.
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