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The Activities of UN Specialized Agencies in the Area of Disaster Relief of Population and Territories against Disasters in the beginning of the XXI century
- Authors: Kuvshinov A.V.1
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- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
- Issue: Vol 16, No 1 (2016): "Soft Power" in International Relations. The Image of Russia
- Pages: 114-123
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/10533
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The article deals with the analysis of the structure and main directions of the activities of UN specialized agencies as well as other international organizations and entities such as ICDO aimed at the organization of the measures for disaster relief and civil defence. The urgency of the article is in the fact that it is for the first time in Russian academic literature devoted to this topic with the specific examples of conducting of such measures. The main conclusions of the article stresses that the specialized U.N. agencies and other international and national entities have already demonstrated the urgent nature and efficiency of providing disaster relief to affected countries and population in the beginning of the XXI century but they should upgrade their potential in that regard in the coming years.
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Aleksey Vladimirovich Kuvshinov
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
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Email: alkuv16@gmail.com
Department of theory and history of international relations
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