Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA)
Tuesday
Iran, Armenia express readiness to hold joint rescue drills
Tehran (ISNA) – Ambassador of Iran to Armenia, Seyyed Kazem Sajjadi held a meeting with Armenian Minister of Emergency Situations, Feliks Tsolakyan, discussing bilateral cooperation in the fields of disaster prevention and relief and rescue operations.
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Congratulating the Armenian minister on Christmas, Sajjadi insisted on bilateral cooperation in reconstruction projects in the aftermath of natural disasters and unexpected accidents.
Mentioning the capacities of Iran's Red Crescent, he expressed the relief entity's readiness for bilateral cooperation in the fields of producing relief facilities and medicine, holding training courses and exchanging their experience with Armenian experts.
The Iranian official also stressed on the need for promoting provincial cooperation in the field of emergency situations, calling for holding joint search and rescue drills and implementing bilateral memorandums of understanding.
Noting the history of cooperation with Iran's Red Crescent and memorandums of understanding for emergency situations, Feliks Tsolakyan expressed Armenia's readiness to continue the cooperation.
He also insisted on deploying rescue teams on a route that Iranian tourists using it for traveling to Armenia.
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