(ANSAmed) – ISTANBUL, FEBRUARY 10 – EU anti-crisis Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva will visit Turkey today to acknowledge the increasingly important role of the country as international humanitarian aid donor and to discuss closer cooperation during catastrophes. The news was announced by the Italian Trade Commission (ICE) office in Istanbul.
The Commissioner will hold meetings in Ankara with Vice Premier Besir Atalay and Egemen Bagis, Minister for EU Affairs and chief negotiator. The talks will focus on humanitarian disaster and emergency management, like the strategies used in the various crises in the Palestinian Territories, in the Sahel, Somalia and Sudan. The humanitarian crisis in Syria will also be on the agenda.
Turkey has shown with its humanitarian interventions that rising prosperity can go hand-in-hand with growing responsibility, said the Commissioner. Apart from meetings with humanitarian NGOs of the Red Crescent, the Commissioner will also visit the Van province in the east of Turkey, which was hit by a violent earthquake in October last year.(ANSAmed).