During the morning of May 30, the Higher War School of the Peruvian Army - EPG, in collaboration with the Inter-American Defense Board (JID), organized the Symposium "International Cooperation in response to disasters." On that occasion, it was possible to discuss, in a forum of the highest level, important aspects of international cooperation activity in matters of disasters in the Americas, such as the role played by the Conference of Ministers of Defense of the Americas (CMDA) in the topic, the different lines of action implemented by the Inter-American Defense Board in its role as technical, consultative and educational advisor to the member states of the Organization of American States, the importance of the support provided by the world food program in case of disasters and the presentation of the Disaster Cooperation Mechanism (MECODE-CMDA), developed by the IADB.
The Symposium had as speakers Mrs. Ana Carolina Podlesker, Executive Secretary of the XVI Conference of Ministers of Defense; Major Brigadeiro do Ar Flávio Luiz de Oliveira Pinto, General Director of the IADB Secretariat; Brigadier General Marco Antonio Álvarez, President of the Council of Delegates of the IADB; Major General Richard Heitkamp, Director of the Inter-American Defense College; Magister Jorge Terrones Cano, Humanitarian-Military Interaction Officer for the World Food Program; and Colonel Orlando Melvin Ugaz Bartolo, Head of the Disaster Cooperation Division of the IADB.
Among the various civil and military authorities present at the event, the Vice Minister of Defense Policies of the Republic of Peru, General César Torres Vega, and Army General David Ojeda Parra, Head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, stand out. Forces of Peru.
