The Minister of Internal Affairs, Filip Adžić, said that climate change creates challenges, to which every country must offer an adequate and timely response.
Today, as announced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Training Center for Protection and Rescue was opened.
"Today's opening of the National Training Center for Protection and Rescue is proof that the Ministry of Internal Affairs recognizes the importance of investing in the protection and rescue system and achieves visible results in terms of regional and international cooperation," said Adžić.
He said that, aware that climate change creates challenges, to which every country must offer an adequate and timely response in order to protect citizens and material and cultural assets, they are continuously improving the capacities of that complex system.
"I believe that the National Training Center will help the subjects of protection and rescue to be more prepared and trained, and what I can state with certainty is that they did not lack courage and sacrifice", said Adžić.
They state that the acting general director for protection and rescue of the MUP, Miodrag Bešović, addressed the attendees, who said that it is a modern center that will ensure the implementation of professional training and development.
He pointed out that the opening of the center successfully finalized the "Safe together" project, which the Directorate for Protection and Rescue implemented as a leading partner in cooperation with the cities of Gradiška (BiH) and Daruvar (Croatia).
He reminded, as announced, that all project activities were carried out in accordance with the planned dynamics, and that they aimed to strengthen resources for responding to natural disasters and other accidents in the cross-border area of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
The head of the Directorate for Operational Affairs in the Directorate for Protection and Rescue, Radomir Šćepanović, expressed his satisfaction that thanks to the newly opened center within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Directorate for Protection and Rescue, following the example of EU countries, will organize and conduct basic and specialist training, staff exercises, as well as training aimed at raising citizens' awareness of disaster risk reduction.
BiH Ambassador to Montenegro Branimir Jukić thanked the Ministry of Interior and the local administrations of Gradiška and Daruvar for joining in the "Safe together" project, as well as the European Union, which recognized the need for such an initiative.
"We are witnesses that preparation and prevention are necessary when it comes to preventing and repairing the consequences of natural disasters, and by working together we affirm coordination and solidarity," said Jukić.
Croatian Ambassador to Montenegro Veselko Grubišić, congratulating on the successful implementation of the project, pointed out that regional connectivity is extremely important.
He expressed, as they state, the expectation that in the coming period, Montenegro will continue to improve its capacities and thus be one step closer to EU membership.
They said that the adaptation of the National Training Center was realized within the project "Safe together", which the Directorate for Protection and Rescue, as a leading partner, implemented in the previous two years with project partners the City of Gradiška from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the city of Daruvar from Croatia.
According to them, the project is implemented within the cross-border program Intereg, IPA, Croatia - BiH - Montenegro, the total value of which is 1.276.113,89 euros, of which the total budget of the Directorate for Protection and Rescue was 519.981,54 euros, while of which 85 percent or 441.967,30 euros was covered by the funds of the European Union.
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