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India and Russia signed the working plan of the Joint Russian-Indian Commission on the Cooperation in the Field of Emergency Management for 2025-26.
Both the countries agreed to implement the plan during 2025-26, and decided to continue exchange of the best practices and lessons learnt in the field of disaster management.
The first meeting of the commission was held in New Delhi in 2016.
Within the overall framework of cooperation, the three specific issues were deliberated in the meeting —
use of space monitoring technologies for risks forecasting and emergency response,
exchange of experiences of responding to large-scale disasters,
cooperation in the field of training of fire and rescue specialists
The next meeting of the commission will be held in India in 2026.
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