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  INSARAG Team Leaders Meeting
  The UK will host the 2008 Team Leaders meeting of the International Search & Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG). The meeting, sponsored by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), will be held in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire from the 6th-8th May 2008.
 
INSARAG is a global network of more than 80 countries and disaster response organisations under the United Nations umbrella. INSARAG deals with urban search and rescue (USAR) related issues.
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INSARAG aims at estsablishing standards for international USAR teams and methodology for international coordination in earthquake response. Members of INSARAG are both earthquake-prone and responding countries and organisations.
 

At last year’s conference in Delhi, the UK successfully bid to host the conference in 2008. The meeting in the UK will be based at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and will run between the 6th and 8th May 2008. The meeting will also visit the Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire.

 
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Stratford-upon-Avon
 
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