RESCUE BRIGADE TO BE SENT TO CHINA

Panorama.am
19:10 20/05/2008

Today the Minister of Emergency State Mher Shahgeldyan received
Mrs. Konsuelo Vidal the permanent coordinator of the UN. Nino
Antanadze, head of the UN disaster management group, Tatev Koloyan,
the assistant of UN coordinator, Edik Barseghyan, the director of
Armenian rescue service, and the deputy directors of the rescue
service Aram Tananyan and Nikolay Grigoryan.

According to the press service of the ministry, Mrs. Vidal
congratulated the minister for the appointment, presented the projects
implemented with the rescue team and discussed the perspectives of
the future cooperation.

Minister Shahgeldyan mentioned that the formation of the ministry
is the proof to the fact that the Government pays attention on the
current field. "We are not just aimed to form a strong power which
could be treated as the sequence of Spitak earthquake but to the first
in the regional countries. Armenia has been providing aid to Georgia,
Russia, Turkey, Iran, India and Thailand in different disasters. Today
we are ready to send rescue teams to China," said M. Shahgaldyan.