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The XIIth meeting of the Coordination Council for Emergency Situations of the CSTO member states was held in Bishkek
10.10.2019
On October 10, 2019, in Bishkek, at the State Residence of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, under the chairmanship of the Minister of Emergency Situations Mirzakhmedov Nurbolot Sabirzhanovich, the regular XII meeting of the Coordinating Council for Emergency Situations of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held.
The meeting was attended by the Acting Secretary General of the CSTO, Valery Semerikov.
They discussed issues of expanding the CSTO’s cooperation with international organizations in order to use the potential in providing assistance in case of emergencies, the activities of the Coordinating Council for Emergency Situations of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization for 2019, the plan of joint measures for 2020, and also summed up the staff training on working out the interaction of emergency departments in case of emergency situations conducted by videoconference in March this year under the leadership of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Kyrgyz Republic.
In addition, the agenda of the meeting also included the expansion of cooperation and exchange of experience in the field of educating the younger generation of a culture of life safety and giving the status of basic training units of bodies authorized in the field of emergency prevention and response to the CSTO member states of a number of educational institutions of the Ministry of Emergencies Of Russia.
The meeting is attended by heads, members of the CSTO Coordinating Council for Emergency Situations, deputy heads of the emergency departments of the CSTO member states and the CSTO Acting Secretary General Semerikov Valery Anatolyevich, as well as representatives of international and non-governmental organizations.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic actively cooperates in the field of emergency prevention and response within the framework of the Coordinating Council for Emergency Situations of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
