The newly appointed Secretary-General of the International Civil Defence Organization (ICDO), Arguj Kalantarli, during his speech at the 3rd Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly of the International Civil Defence Organization in Baku, has described the humanitarian disaster in Palestine as “the loss of lifelines,” APA reports.
Arguj Kalantarli addressed the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza, calling for urgent global attention and a unified response.
“I would like to mention the heartbreaking situation in one of our member states, Palestine,” he said. “We are currently witnessing a humanitarian disaster of unimaginable proportions in Gaza. Food, water, medicine, shelter – these are no longer just basic rights. They are lifelines. And these lifelines are slipping through our fingers.”
Kalantarli’s speech also addressed the broader global context of disasters and their escalating complexity.
“Let’s start with a simple but vital question: Are we truly resilient to today’s disasters, whether natural or man-made? Resilience today demands more than we have ever given it. The disasters we face now are more frequent, more complex, and more interconnected than ever before. Climate change, pandemics, industrial accidents, displacement – these are no longer isolated events,” he noted.
He warned that current global systems are failing to cope with these evolving threats:
“There are alarm bells ringing across borders and systems. Every year, thousands of lives are lost, hundreds of thousands of families are displaced, billions of dollars in infrastructure are destroyed – and far too often, our response is too slow, too fragmented, and too late.”
Kalantarli concluded with a call for collective action: “So I ask again: what is our collective response? One possible response could be a strong International Civil Defence Organization.”
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