Azerbaijan’s Minister of Emergency Situations, Colonel-General Kamaladdin Heydarov, met with a Belarusian delegation led by the Minister of Emergency Situations, Major-General of the Internal Service Vadim Sinyavski, who is visiting Azerbaijan to attend the 21st Men’s and 12th Women’s World Fire and Rescue Sports Championships in Baku.
According to Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations, Heydarov thanked the guests for taking part in the world championships and highlighted the importance of hosting such a prestigious international sporting event in Azerbaijan. He epressed confidence that the competition would strengthen professional ties among rescuers from member countries of the International Sport Federation of Firefighters and Rescuers and promote the development of fire and rescue sports.
Noting the consistently epanding high-level relations between Azerbaijan and Belarus, Heydarov said that the emergency management agencies of the two countries had established a long-standing and effective cooperation framework. He emphasized the importance of regular contacts and echanges of eperience in preventing emergencies and dealing with their consequences.
The Azerbaijani minister epressed confidence that Sinyavski’s visit and the signing of a regulation on cooperation and information echange between the two countries’ emergency ministries would contribute significantly to epanding the echange of operational information and epertise in emergency response.
For his part, Sinyavski praised the high standard of organization of the World Fire and Rescue Sports Championships in Baku.
He also highlighted the mutual benefits of cooperation between the relevant emergency management agencies of Azerbaijan and Belarus amid the rapid development of bilateral ties. The minister pointed out that visits at various levels, meetings and signed agreements had made a significant contribution to strengthening relations. Sinyavski epressed confidence that the talks held during the current visit and the newly signed document would pave the way for further epanding cooperation between the two ministries.
The meeting also featured an etensive echange of views on issues of mutual interest.
Following the talks, the two ministers signed a regulation on cooperation and information echange between the Crisis Management Center of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Republican Center for Emergency Management and Response of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus.
Later, Sinyavski presented Heydarov with the “For Promoting Life Safety” badge in recognition of his significant contribution to improving the protection of the population and territories against natural and man-made emergencies, as well as strengthening cooperation with Belarus’s Ministry of Emergency Situations.