CIS EMERGENCY SITUATION COUNCIL WILL NOT DISCUSS FIRES IN KARABAKH

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.09.2006 16:29 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 20th session of CIS Interstate Council on Natural
and Man-Caused Emergency Situations opened in Yerevan September
26. During the 3-day meeting representatives of rescue services of
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Russia,
Tajikistan and Ukraine will consider the draft Inter-State Program
on Joint Scientific Research on CIS member states’ organizations
to prevent and eliminate emergency situations up to 2010. During the
session its participants will also consider draft documents on creation
of an international center for training specialists for rescue diving
services of the CIS, interaction of the CIS Corps of Forces and rescue
medical services of CIS countries. In the words of Director of the
Department of the international activities of the Russian Ministry
of Emergency Situations Yuri Brazhnikov within the framework of the
session the issue on command and staff exercises of the CIS Corps of
Forces for coping with emergency situations will also be discussed.

Brazhnikov also noted that the agenda does not include making efforts
or providing assistance to eliminate fires in territories controlled
by Nagorno Karabakh.

He also stressed that CIS forces can provide assistance within their
powers, "however it does not mean they should move to eliminate
outcomes of the fires, as the issue is considered from the political
point of view." "If there are serious requests according to the order
established, of course Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan and many other
countries will take measures for the fires to be put off," he assures,
reports IA Regnum.