Russian Emergency Ministry ready to help Sri Lanka with floods

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Russian Emergency Ministry ready to help Sri Lanka with floods

The Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations is ready to help Sri Lanka mitigate devastating monsoon floods.

Emergency Minister Vladimir Puchkov has sent the Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Disaster Management a telegram offering help. “I would like to offer practical free assistance of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situation in response to a natural disaster under the Memorandum of understanding signed in 2009,” the telegram reads.

Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations Sergei Voronov has held a meeting today in Moscow with Deputy Minister of Disaster Management of Sri Lanka Dunesh Kankanda. The two officials discussed the developing situation.

The Emergency Ministry helped Sri Lanka after a devastating tsunami in 2004, deploying Russian rescuers and the airmobile hospital of the Tsentrospas team. Back them hundreds of victims got help.