YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS. The 9th session of the Coordinating Council of CSTO Emergency Situations took place on September 29 in Yerevan.

Emergency Situations state management delegations from Russia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kirgizstan participated in the meeting, as well as representatives of the UN humanitarian affairs coordinating office of Moscow and the Red Cross office, and Almaty’s Kazakh-Kirgiz ES and disaster risk reduction center.

Deputy Minister of ES H. Hakobyan welcomed the participants on behalf of the ministry and Minister A. Yeritsyan.

At the beginning of the session, participants paid homage with a moment of silence to the memory of firefighters who recently died during a large fire in Moscow.

Opening remarks were delivered by CSTO deputy secretary general Valery Semerikov.

Semerikov thanked the Armenian ministry of emergency situations and noted that events hosted in Armenia always proceed on a high level.

The session’s agenda focused on strengthening cooperation with international organizations, CSTO exercises, training of specialists of member states in Russia’s educational institutions and formation of Armenian-Russian humanitarian response center.