UPDATED: Parliament approves presidential decree on mobilisation of army in response the emergency situation in Mestia
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The Georgian Parliament has held an extraordinary session to approve sending the military equipment to the disaster zone in Chuberi after landslide caused flooding of Nesnskra river what resulted in damage of motorways, bridges and houses.
After parliament’s approval, the Ministry of Defence is able to send a 50-meter panel bridge and 18 military engineering machines to Chuberi on the basis of the request.
Earlier: July 8, 14:32
The President of Georgia, as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the country, has issued a decree allowing the emergency response group to use the Georgian military forces to deal with the flooding and landslide disaster results in Mestia municipality.A landslide caused the river Nenskra to flood beginning from July 5 which resulted in dozens of damaged houses, as well as bridges and motorways across the Chuberi community involving several villages.
The Eastern Command of the Land Forces and the Logistic Support Command of the General Staff will now be involved in the disaster response process, according to the presidential decree.
Following the decree the emergency response group has appealed to the Ministry of Defense for additional enginerial machinery to restore six bridges damaged by the disaster.
Due to the absence of bridges the two sides of the river are cut off and workers are hindered from delivering necessary equipment to respond to the emergency situation at especially damaged places.
"The fastest way to restore motorway communication would be the use of a panel military bridge which would allow construction equipment to strengthen the left bank of the river and restoration work,” the emergency response group wrote in the letter to the Ministry of Defense.
According to the Minister of Refugees Sozar Subari the danger of the disaster repeating has been reduced to a minimum.
Specialists have investigated the valley of Nenskra and Dolra, as well as the Becho community and have found that the danger has been practically eliminated, he said.
12 heavy machines and more than 20 trucks are working in Chuberi currently.
More than 20 houses have been damaged as a result of disaster. The government will provide those affected with alternative housing, according to Subari.
The Georgian Minister for Refugees Sozar Subari has stated that 21 houses and the local infrastructure have been heavily damaged in the village of Tchuberi in Mestia, on the second day of flooding of the river Nenskra.
In about three years early warning systems will be installed throughout Georgia, enabling the population to receive relevant and timely information in a systematic way prior to disasters in order to make informed decisions and take action.
A sudden flooding of the river Nenska in the village of Tchuberi in Svaneti region has cut the village off from the rest of Georgia, as all five bridges have been destroyed, infrastructure has been heavily damaged and many of the houses are in water.
Georgia is striving to fortify energy security in the country and improve its economy by building the largest hydro power plant in the recent history of independent Georgia - the Nenskra Hydro-Electric Power Plant (HPP).