Premier Chen Jianren presented 6,000 yuan in condolences and gift boxes of fresh food to the search and rescue dogs.

(Photo by reporter Tu Jianrong)

[Reporter Huang Jingyu/Taipei Report] Chief Executive Chen Jianren hosted a banquet at the Grand Hotel on the evening of the 23rd to thank the Taiwan search and rescue team, and gave a "per person per dog" 6,000 yuan condolence money to express condolences for the earthquake disaster in Turkey.

Chen Chien-jen said that at the beginning, 40 search and rescue personnel from Taiwan set off first, and there were 90 in the second echelon. He also personally went to the airport to see off the plane.

Political Councilor Zhang Jingsen and Luo Bingcheng, Interior Minister Lin Youchang and others also attended tonight.

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Chen Jianren expressed his gratitude to Lin Youchang for his instructions to let all search and rescue teams learn how to integrate from this experience. This time, the 130 members of the Chinese search and rescue team arrived at the first time, even earlier than the American search and rescue team, and they can also provide information sharing. Perhaps in the future, our country will have opportunities Help neighboring countries train their search and rescue teams.

Chen Jianren pointed out that the Ministry of Health and Welfare has received more than 900 million yuan in donations to Turkey. He said that the people of Taiwan feel empathy for those who are suffering. When we combine love and search and rescue energy, it represents Taiwan's worth. The whole world is watching.

Xu Yuwen, inspector of the special search and rescue team, said that after receiving the strong earthquake in Turkey on 2/6, the government immediately mobilized 130 personnel, including 4 doctors, 4 nurses, 1 veterinarian, and 5 search and rescue dogs that meet international standards. Dog, and carrying 13 tons of rescue equipment, took a special plane to Turkey to perform international humanitarian rescue missions. Since the Taiwan search and rescue team was the first international search and rescue team to arrive in the hardest-hit area, they assisted the United Nations to establish a regional coordination command center on the spot to accept search and rescue teams from all over the world. After the US team arrived one day later, the Taiwan search and rescue team shared the relevant disaster information they collected with the US team, and everyone jointly carried out international humanitarian relief tasks.

Xu Yuwen pointed out that the key to transporting the 130 search and rescue team members and 5 search and rescue dogs to Turkey, which is 8,000 kilometers away in a short period of time, is the special plane. On October 6, the Executive Yuan convened a meeting of the Disaster Prevention Office of the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of the Interior, China Airlines, and Evergreen to discuss the implementation of international humanitarian relief in the form of special planes in the future. Zhang Jingsen said at the meeting In the future, if a special plane is used to carry out international humanitarian rescue missions, it will be the first to arrive in the disaster area, and even rescue survivors in the disaster area, which will greatly enhance Taiwan's international visibility. Now he "reports to the political commissar, the Taiwan team has done it"!

It is understood that the second and return journeys of this international humanitarian rescue use special charter flights.

Lin Youchang also said that the opening contracts for the special plane had been signed before. He thanked Zhang Jingsen, the political commissar and chairman of the Disaster Relief Foundation, and also thanked all the crew members of EVA Air, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Turkish Representative Office, and the Turkish government for their assistance. .

On the 23rd, Premier Chen Jianren, Minister of the Interior Lin Youchang and others attended the Thanksgiving Dinner for the Turkey-Taiwan International Search and Rescue Team and took a group photo with the brothers of the search and rescue team.

(Photo by reporter Tu Jianrong)

On the 23rd, Premier Chen Chien-jen attended the Thanksgiving Dinner for the Turkey-Taiwan International Search and Rescue Team, and delivered a speech thanking the search and rescue team for their hard work.

(Photo by reporter Tu Jianrong)

On the 23rd, Zhang Jingsen, a member of the Executive Yuan, attended the Thanksgiving Dinner for the Turkey-Taiwan International Search and Rescue Team.

(Photo by reporter Tu Jianrong)