ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY PROPOSES COOPERATION IN THE SPHERE OF ENSURING CHEMICAL SAFETY WITH NGOS

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2007-10-29 17:55:00

ArmInfo. Armenian Defense Ministry proposes cooperation with
non-governmental ecological organizations in the sphere of chemical
safety in the republic. Commander of radiological, chemical and
biological defense forces of RA DM Sergey Hovhanisyan voiced the
proposal during "Cooperation for ensuring chemical safety in Armenia"
regional conference held in Yerevan.

Hovhanisyan presented the readiness of RA armed forces for prevention
of situations in case of chemical threats and said that the government
has worked out an action plan of emergency situations, which is being
refined and will be reviewed in the nearest future. According to the
plan, the country’s DM conducted readiness exercises of a number
of ministries and departments for mitigation of consequences at
the nuclear power station, as well as exercises for anti-terrorist
measures at chemical plants. Proposing cooperation with ecological
organizations, Hovhanisyan said that working out of a joint action
plan will also help activate the work of the Ecology Department
created under the Minister of Ecology.

Speaking about chemical weapon of mass destruction and the necessity
of organizing quick response measures in case of a threat, Hovhanisyan
emphasized that only in the past millennium 170mln people died because
of chemical warfare. Moreover, now except weapons of nuclear, chemical
and bacteriological origin, people started to use such types of weapons
of mass destruction as geophysical, ethnic, race, laser, seismic, sound
and radiological. In this context Hovhanisyan mentioned Internet’s
"black role", where everyone can get information about methods of
production of primitive chemical weapons in domestic conditions.