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On October 18 the NA Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs had its working visit. This time the Committee Chairman Koryun Nahapetyan, members of the Committee Artur Stepanyan, Khachatur Kokobelyan and Ishkhan Khachatryan had been in the Crisis Management Centre of the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Accompanied by the RA Minister of Emergency Situations Armen Yeritsyan they took a tour in the buildings of the ministry, got acquainted with the feasibility and working conditions. Then the NA deputies visited the Crisis Management Centre, and the Minister introduced the principles of the organization of the subunits and particularly, the Crisis Centre, the mechanisms of quick response, the possibilities of the establishment of effective communication with different departments and bodies, as well as of different foreign countries, the programmes of prevention in emergency situations, decrease and elimination of their possible consequences and the implementation of the measures for people’s protection.

The fact of the active involvement of the handicapped employees in the Crisis Management Centre was remarkable and symbolic. According to the Minister, all conditions were created for 25 handicapped people in the Crisis Centre.

During the meeting with the Staff of the Ministry Koryun Nahapetyan and the members of the Committee highly assessed the wide-scale work done, the successes and the achievements of the Ministry, recording that a structure fully corresponding with the standards of the rescue service of the European countries was created. They expressed readiness for further activating the cooperation with the Ministry and its subunits, and Koryun Nahapetyan said that the Committee was going to hold parliamentary hearings on the development of the rescue service, as a result of which, it would be possible to rectify the possible legislative gaps and shortcomings.

There were also debates on the existing problems in the sphere, which as Koryun Nahapetyan characterized, was a peculiar basis and stimulus for parliamentary hearings.