Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia and the Supreme Council for National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority of the United Arab Emirates in the field of emergency situations.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia and National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority of the United Arab Emirates, accepting the importance of cooperation between authorities of their states in the field of emergency situations, taking into account the positive experience of cooperation between their states, aiming at most strengthening of mutual understanding and friendly cooperation, accepting the necessity of performance of agreed activities ensuring the population safety and sustainable development of the countries, accepting the necessity of mutual usage of human, scientific and technological and information potential for undertaking measures on prevention of natural and man-made emergency situations and liquidation of consequences and helping the affected population, considering the useful bilateral and multilateral information exchange in the field of emergency situations, seeking rightly assessing the readiness of Caucasus and Middle East countries to cope with disasters, have agreed to cooperate in the following fields: (a) prevention of emergency situations, protection of population and territories, search and rescue operations; (b) prevention of natural and man-made disasters and mitigation of the consequences thereof; (c) monitoring of hazardous man-made processes, ecological situation and natural phenomena; (d) exchange of information and advanced technologies; (e) joint planning and development of scientific and technical projects, and results of scientific researches, videos and pictorial material; (f) visits of delegations responsible for emergency management and experience change; and (g) organizing of seminars, workshops, lectures for upgrading the specialized skills of emergency personnel.