Ministry of Emergency Situations (Azerbaijan)

In accordance with this law the Cabinet of the Republic has issued the Decision “About the Provisions of Civil Defence”, and approved normative documents.

Additionally, it supervises mandatory fire insurance of properties of the people that involved in business related activities.

[7] The service mainly focuses on providing security in industry and mountain-mine related works in order not to encounter technical issues and emergent situation along with the relevant state bodies.

[8] The agency is established to keep the main reservoirs of the state under its control in order to maintain their reserve and structural integrity.

It organizes special risky search and accident-rescue operations when tries to overcome the consequences of emergency circumstances and provides immediate medical aid to injured population.

The service has also other duties such as ensuring medical guarantee for recruitment of military units, making predictions on epidemiological circumstances in the areas suffered from disasters, preventing the spread of diseases, etc.

The Academy aims to prepare skilled graduate staff for the Ministry, and also apply necessary means in order to increase its employees’ qualifications.

The Ministry cooperates with following international organizations: the United Nations, NATO, OSCE, CIS, GUAM, OPCW, IAEA, and the BSEC.

These are the countries which ministry cooperates with: the Russian Federation, the United States, Jordan, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, France, and Germany.