ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of Republic of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Kistafin called on Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Lt General Inam Haider Malik, H (IM) here in his office on Thursday.

Chairman NDMA expressed his gratitude to the visiting dignitary for gracious donation/financial commitments from Republic of Kazakhstan towards Prime Minister’s Relief Fund, says a press release.

They discussed necessity of continued support to flood affected people during impending winters. Chairman NDMA stressed on shared intellectual and administrative cooperation mechanism for investment in preparedness, greater than post disaster management.

Both sides developed consensus on expanding capacity building of Pakistan’s national efforts in Floods 2022. Need to establish more bilateral and multilateral regional cooperation in disaster mitigation, awareness, preparedness and subsequently in relief, rescue and rehabilitation and reconstruction phases were agreed.

The Ambassador proposed that after initial online meeting between Minister of Emergency Response of Kazakhstan and Chairman NDMA, the follow up high level delegates of Kazakhstan will plan visit to Pakistan and NDMA to explore further avenues of mutual cooperation.