India and Russia sign working plan to handle emergencies

Sub : IR

Sec: India and World

Context:

India and Russia signed the working plan of the Joint Russian-Indian Commission on the Cooperation in the Field of Emergency Management for 2025-2026.
The plan was signed during the second meeting of the commissionin Moscow.

Details of the meeting:

Both countries agreed to implement the plan during 2025-2026 and decided to continue the exchange of the best practices and lessons learnt in the field of disaster management.
Both sides decided to extend cooperation between the eminent educational and research institutions in both the countries.
Areas of cooperation include:
- Use of space monitoring technologies for risks forecasting and emergency response.
- Exchange of experiences of responding to large-scale disasters.
- Cooperation in the field of training of fire and rescue specialists
It was decided that the next meeting of the commission will be held in India in 2026.

About the commission:

India and Russia signed the Agreement for cooperation in the field of Emergency Management during the 11th Indo-Russian Annual Summit held in 2010.
The agreement provided for a Joint Russian-Indian Commission on the Cooperation in the Field of Emergency Management.
The first meeting of the commission was held in New Delhi in 2016.
Previously, working plan was devised for years 2016-17 and 2018-19.

Previous agreements between India and Russia in the field of emergency:

Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) for cooperation in the field of Emergency Management in December 2010
Regulation to establish the Indo-Russian Joint Commission for Cooperation (2013) in prevention and elimination of consequences of emergency situations.