ARMENIAN RESCUERS TAUGHT TO COUNTERACT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.10.2006 17:33 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A team of emergency response experts and hazardous
materials specialists from the U.S. Department of Defense and Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in Yerevan to conduct a realistic
two-day training scenario October 17-18, 2006. This training scenario,
which takes place at the Emergency Management Academy and involves
a simulated Weapons of Mass Destruction incident, is the culminating
event in a series of courses taught by this team in Armenia over the
past few years under the U.S. Department of Defense International
Counter-proliferation Program. During this visit, the team also
is providing training for representatives from the Armenian Rescue
Service, the Ministry of Defense and the Republic of Armenia Police
on the use of detection and monitoring equipment, as well as evidence
collection equipment. This equipment was part of a U.S. Government
equipment donation to the Government of Armenia in July that totaled
more than $300,000.