Briefing on Red Cross activities held
KCNA
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- A briefing on Red Cross activities was held in Pyongyang on Thursday to mark the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day.
Present at the briefing were the head of the cooperation delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCRCS) and its members, the head of the cooperation delegation of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) and its members, representatives and officials of the Pyongyang missions of un and non-governmental organizations and Swedish and British diplomatic envoys here.
The participants were briefed on the activities of the Red Cross Society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and on cooperative activities of the IFRCRCS and ICRC in different countries and their humanitarian cooperation in the DPRK.
The IFRCRCS has helped the Korean people in healing unprecedented natural disasters that hit the DPRK for years from Juche 84 (1995).
This year it has offered medicines to the DPRK and assisted it in the work to keep drinking water clean and fresh and cope with disasters.
The ICRC built the Songrim Orthopedic Centre in 2002 and has provided prosthesis to amputees.
The committee is making efforts to improve the quality of prosthesis and training experts.
The federation and the committee expressed their willingness to continue rendering humanitarian aids to the DPRK.
Foreign diplomats and officials of un and non-governmental cooperation organizations in Pyongyang highly appreciated the ongoing red cross cooperation in the DPRK.
