Rescue Center Set up in Tbilisi

(Tbilisi, July 18, 2003, Civil Georgia) -The official ceremony of opening of the rescue center in Tbilisi was held today.

The base will also serve as a centre for disaster relief operations in other Caucasian states. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation allocated USD 502 thousand to fund the project. Switzerland has sent a team of experts to Georgian to help set up a rescue centre.

The base will deal with earthquakes, mountain rescues and recovering the bodies of the victims of drowning.

“We are going to send a platoon-size troops to Iraq to participate in the rehabilitation of the country. Thus creation of the rescue base in Georgia is extremely important for us,” President Shevardnadze said at the opening ceremony today.

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