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Jafarnejad rallies Seleyan support for Kaliburg in response to devastating earthquake
2 May 4892



ALDEGAR: After a major earthquake hit the Kalistani capital earlier this year, Aldegarian President Shahram Jafarnejad has joined with regional partners through the Seleyan Intergovernmental Council to facilitate a wide range of support to the city of Kaliburg and the surrounding regions. While the immediate search and rescue efforts have mostly concluded, the region was devastated by the impact of the earthquake and has been mostly evacuated in the past eight weeks.

In addition to disaster relief aid supplied by national governments, Aldegar joins Valruzia and Yingdala as the primary suppliers of both machinery and manpower in order to support the removal of large amounts of debris from Kaliburg. The aim of the international effort is to enable Kalistan's national government to focus primarily on supporting those forced to leave them homes and livelihoods in the capital.

The earthquake at the beginning of March was the most powerful to hit a Seleyan country in some time and the most significant humanitarian crisis since the formation of the Seleyan Intergovernmental Council. Jafarnejad offered his condolences to the affected families in the immediate aftermath. In the past fortnight he has been in close contact with both the Kalistani government and other member states to ensure that the organisation offered a proper response and supported the efforts of the domestic government as far as possible.