The Advisory Board of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) Team of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) held its annual meeting on 5-6 February in Geneva, where Hungary was welcomed as a new member.

Ms. Catherine Bragg, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator & Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs attended the meeting, which also celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of UNDAC. The preconditions for becoming a member were met through successful cooperation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Directorate General for Disaster Management. Hungary is now a member of a UN group of nearly 250 highly-skilled experts who are deployed at very short notice to countries struck by emergencies and who coordinate international humanitarian response activities in cooperation with the government concerned.

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs)