BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 13. Azerbaijani Parliament ratified the agreement on the establishment of the civil defense mechanism of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), Trend reports.
The matter was deliberated upon during today's plenary assembly
of the parliament.
The legislative proposal regarding the ratification of the
"Agreement on the establishment of the civil defense mechanism of
the OTS" was subjected to a voting process and successfully passed
in its initial reading.
The accord was executed by delegates from the administrations of
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan on
November 6, 2024, in Bishkek.
The objective of the civil defense framework of the OTS is to
establish a unified disaster response capability aimed at
addressing exigent requirements during calamities and crisis
scenarios that may occur within the jurisdictions of member states
and observer states of the OTS, in addition to other nations.
The Organization of Turkic States (OTS), previously known as the Turkic Council or the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, is an intergovernmental entity that includes all but one of the internationally recognized Turkic sovereign nations. The primary objective is to foster extensive collaboration among the Turkic nations. The General Secretariat of OTS is situated in Istanbul, Türkiye.
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