ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER TIGRAN SARGSYAN WAS PRESENT AT THE CONFERENCE ON REPORT ON "DECREASE OF DISASTER RISKS AND MANAGEMENT OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS IN ARMENIA"

ARMENPRESS
DECEMBER 14, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 14, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan was present today at the conference on report on "Decrease
of Disaster Risks and Management of Emergency Situations in Armenia"
prepared by the World Bank. Representatives of interested ministries,
local and international experts and others were present at the event.

Governmental press service told Armenpress that speaking about
the possible risks of natural disasters, their social-economic
consequences, empowering of skills on confronting the disasters, the
prime minister said "We must learn to live in conditions of emergency
situations. Armenia, more than any other country, realizes to which
consequences the disasters bring. 21 years passed from the Spitak
disastrous earthquake but we still feel its economic, social and
psychological consequences".

According to him, by studying the international experience we must
learn to manage the risks which means that we must have a comprehensive
system of management which gives an opportunity to forecast disasters,
which is very hard to do.

"The second direction is the preventive events. Taking into
consideration the circumstance that in Armenia often earthquakes,
landslides take place from the very beginning it is necessary to
develop and implement such programs which decrease the negative
consequences of manifestation of risks," the prime minister said.

During the events suggestions have been presented for development of
the national comprehensive program on decrease of the risk of natural
disasters in Armenia.