Today, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev signed an order to establish the professional holiday for the employees of the Emergency Ministry, Trend reports. According to the document, Azerbaijan will mark December 16 of each year as the professional holiday for the employees of the Emergency Ministry.
By another order, President Ilham Aliyev founded the Shahdagh National Park. The document says that taking into consideration the expanding network of particular protected natural territories of Azerbaijan, and protecting the biological diversity, objective use of natural resources, ecotourism development, as well as obligations on Agreement on Credit of Development (a rural environment project) (signed between Azerbaijan Republic and the International development Association) on the basis of the natural reserves of Ismayilli and Pirgulu (21,014 ha) and the state forest resources covered territories of Ismayilli, Guba, Gusar, Gabala, Oghuz, and Shamakhy Districts (81,797 ha) of the country, including non-used summer pastures locates on highlands of these Regions (13,084 ha), the Shahdagh National park with the total area of 115,895 ha is to be established.