Within the morning, the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, attended the convention on “Selling Innovation within the Response to Pure Disasters – Alternate of Good Practices: An Act of Civilization”. The convention organized by JTI Hellas in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan in Greece is a part of the “2024: Japan-Greece 12 months of Tradition and Tourism” and on this context, the non-profit group “The JTI Basis” introduced a donation for the fireplace safety of the ferry groves of Xanthi and the gear of the Fireplace Service within the metropolis.
In his speech, the prime minister referred to the significance of selling innovation to cope with pure disasters, giving particular significance to the occasion and the conferences after the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation. “I have to level out that the Greek authorities goes to put money into the approaching years greater than 2 billion euros, primarily European funds, to strengthen civil safety infrastructure,” he stated. He additionally emphasised the early detection and alarm system that will probably be put in within the peri-urban forest of Xanthi.
The convention was additionally attended by the previous prime minister and former president of the ND, Kostas Karamanlis, with whom Mr. Mitsotakis shook palms and had a brief dialogue.
Intimately, in his presentation on the convention, Mr. Mitsotakis acknowledged:
“Mr. President, Mr. Ambassador, pricey President, Your Excellency, Mr. Mayors, women and gents, it’s a actual pleasure to handle you in the present day, the 12 months we have a good time 125 years of diplomatic relations between Greece and Japan.
I consider we will say that this 12 months’s anniversary finds our bilateral relations at their greatest, within the wake of the adoption of the Joint Declaration on Strategic Cooperation in February 2023 throughout my go to to Japan. As you recognize, in 2024 we’re additionally celebrating the 12 months of tradition and tourism and we’re exploring how we will additional promote our cooperation in these two significantly vital areas of our relationship.
I want to congratulate you for organizing in the present day’s convention on the subject of selling innovation within the response to pure disasters, as a result of it offers me the chance to handle an space that I take into account completely essential for the bilateral cooperation between Greece and Japan.
Everyone knows that local weather change is the cruel actuality. We’ve skilled intense phenomena. Final summer time was a really tough summer time for Greece, each by way of the variety of forest fires and their depth. We have confronted floods and it’s vital that we work collectively and leverage the most effective that expertise has to supply to be able to save lives, shield livelihoods and make our communities, as you identified, Mr. President, extra resilient. .
Our two nations know what a pure catastrophe means. After all, as you identified, there may be one pure catastrophe that may have probably the most devastating penalties of all. I’m referring to earthquakes, the place Japan’s know-how is so vital that it nearly pushes us to determine a greater degree of cooperation between Greece and Japan, to be able to undertake these greatest practices and see how we will use the expertise, hopefully sooner or later, for this which could possibly be the ‘Holy Grail’ in catastrophe prevention: early warning on the subject of earthquakes.
I connect specific significance to this occasion and to the conferences that can happen after the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation. Our greatest scientists are concerned, and I hope that we are going to set up a robust partnership between the Ministry of Local weather Disaster and Civil Safety and the Japanese Authorities, which can enable us to change into even higher on this essential space.
I have to level out that the Greek Authorities goes to put money into the approaching years greater than 2 billion euros, primarily European funds, to strengthen civil safety infrastructure. I feel this can be a crucial funding, as a result of once we speak about local weather change, we focus loads on mitigation, however not sufficient on adapting to it.
We have to shield our communities, make them extra resilient and naturally use expertise as greatest we will to be able to cope with more and more frequent phenomena. I’m referring to pure disasters, be it floods, fires or earthquakes.
I want to thanks very a lot, Mr. President, for the donation you’ll make to the Municipality of Xanthi and the Fireplace Service. It is a priceless reward, particularly after final 12 months’s devastating fires, which hit the area of North-East Greece with specific severity, the place we misplaced a part of certainly one of our most vital forests, the forest of Dadia.
I want to give particular emphasis to this early detection and alarm system that we are going to set up within the peri-urban forest of Xanthi. We place particular emphasis on the safety of our peri-urban forests and I consider that this funding will make a decisive contribution to their preservation. Within the afternoon I’ll journey to the world and will probably be pleased to announce the excellent news.
So thanks very a lot once more in your contribution. And let me emphasize as soon as once more that by working collectively and studying from one another, we will strengthen our resilience in opposition to pure disasters.
Looking forward to this fraught future, our two nations, representing historical civilizations and historical knowledge, share the need to proceed the dear contribution and be part of forces on this collective endeavour. Thanks very a lot”.
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