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US Signs Tampere Disaster Mitigation Convention
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, Dec 2, 1998--The United States has joined other governments at UN Headquarters in signing the Tampere Convention. The international agreement, formally signed by the US on November 18, calls on the signing parties to cooperate among themselves and with other organizations "to facilitate the use of telecommunication resources for disaster mitigation and relief."
Thirty-three other countries already have signed the Convention, negotiated in June in Tampere, Finland, at the urging of the humanitarian relief community. Other countries may sign on between now and June of 2003.
Considered one of the most important instruments of its kind in over a decade, the Tampere Convention will help expedite the movement of telecommunications personnel and equipment into disaster-stricken areas such Honduras and Sudan. US National Coordinator for Tampere Larry Roeder called the Convention "a practical instrument for the provision of emergency telecommunications resources." Roeder, a US State Department policy advisor, was chief of the US delegation to the June Intergovernmental Conference on Emergency Telecommunications, which hammered out the Convention. Roeder said the US hopes the Tampere Convention will lead to a second convention protecting all relief workers and the victims they assist.
Signatories to the Tampere Convention agree to end excessive import duties and to minimize administrative and political barriers that could prevent or delay the swift provision across national borders of emergency telecommunications that might be used in locating disaster victims or assisting in the movement of food, medicine and other vital supplies. For the first time, signatories also agree to protect relief workers engaging in emergency telecommunications, and their equipment.
In an effort to ensure that the Tampere Convention changes the current environment, the signatories have asked the Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications--managed by UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sergio de Mello--to standardize cross-border and security procedures.
For more information and a complete copy of the Convention, see the US government's Tampere Web site, http://www.state.gov/www/ issues/relief/tpere1.html.
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