The following is excerpted from a 13 November 2013 news item by the World Customs Organization.
On 29 and 30 October 2013, the World Customs Organization (WCO), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) held a joint Regional Seminar on the Role of Customs in Natural Disaster Relief in Astana, Kazakhstan.
This was the third in a series of Regional Seminars planned by the three Organizations, as requested in the June 2011 Resolution of the WCO Council on the Role of Customs in Natural Disaster Relief.
This item is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wcoomd.org/en/media/newsroom/2013/november/regional-seminar-on-the-role-of-customs-in-natural-disaster.aspx