Civil Emergency Planning Workshop with Cooperation Partners
Budapest, Hungary - 8-10 May 1995
Hungary will host a Partnership for Peace (PfP) workshop on Legislation and Civil Aspects of Crisis Management, in Budapest, 8-10 May 1995. This event is an Hungarian PfP priority for 1995 and is the first Civil Emergency Planning (CEP) workshop to be conducted as part of an approved Individual Partnership Programme.
The President of the National Defence Committee of the Hungarian Parliament, Mr. Imre Mecs will open the workshop and Mr. Gabor Kuncze, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, will give the opening address. Ambassador John Anderson, Canada's Permanent Representative to NATO, will deliver the Keynote address. The workshop will be chaired by the NATO Assistant Secretary General for Infrastructure, Logistics and Civil Emergency Planning, Mr. Herpert van Foreest.
Some 100 civil and military representatives are expected to take part in the plenary and working group sessions. Eight Cooperation Partner nations and seven NATO nations have been invited to provide presentations. Participants will exchange information and experiences about emergency legislation and civil aspects of crisis management. Models aimed at promoting civil and democratic control of government organizations and institutions in an emergency and protection of the population in an emergency will be discussed and examined.
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NATO cooperation programmes in civil emergency planning focus primarily on activities that contribute to legislation and civil aspects of crisis management; disaster prevention and disaster management; humanitarian assistance and the exchange of information.
This workshop is supported by the NATO Division for Infrastructure, Logistics and Civil Emergency Planning and the Hungarian Ministry of Interior. Journalists wishing more information on this workshop should contact the Civil Emergency Planning Directorate, tel: int'l-32- 2-728 41 39.