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The head of the Department for Emergency Situations, Raed Arafat, drew attention on Thursday to the need for states to learn together the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and said that otherwise there could be more serious situations.
"We have witnessed, in the two years of the pandemic, from hybrid attacks to misinformation to 'fake news'. Everything that could happen happened in the pandemic. And the pandemic has shown us that although we have the cooperation mechanisms, we must strengthen our own resources beyond what we had," the DSU executive added.
Arafat said that when the risks are great "we must become aware that no one can deal with these things alone."
"The solution is to create mechanisms of cooperation at international level, within which we can work together, we can have common exercises. Here is the essence - not only to collaborate on disasters, but to prepare jointly, before disasters," he said.
