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The Azerbaijani Emergency Situations Ministry's units are conducting exercises on the elimination of consequences of various disasters with the use of helicopters, boats and other rescue equipments in the coastal area of the Baku's Shikhov settlement.
The Azerbaijani Emergency Situations Kamaladdin Heydarov, Defense Minister Safar Abiyev, Health Minister Ogtay Shiraliyev, State Border Service Chief Elchin Guliyev, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, State Minister Camil Cicek, Russia and Turkey's ambassadors to Azerbaijan, Vladimir Dorokhin and Hulusi Kilic are observing the exercises.
Today the Azerbaijani Emergency Situations Ministry marks the fifth anniversary of its establishment.
"The Emergency Situations Ministry has working plans in Turkey, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, and it is planned to conduct joint exercises with these countries in the future," the Azerbaijani Emergency Situations Minister Kamaladdin Heydarov told journalists.
According to him, there will be held not only visual, but also staff trainings for joint responses to any possible incidents on the borders of these states.