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According to the Emergencies Ministry press service, rescue workers from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Uzbekistan have come to the Noginsk emergency response center of the Russian Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters.
CIS emergency response corps completes first stage of full-scale exercise
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MINSK, 6 May (BelTA) – The first stage of a full-scale exercise of the CIS corps for alleviating the aftermath of man-caused and natural emergencies took place at premises of the national center for control and emergency response of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry on 6 May. The exercise was focused on dealing with consequences of a devastating earthquake, the Emergencies Ministry press service told BelTA.
Participants of the exercise practiced sharing information promptly between duty teams of the emergencies ministries of the CIS member states (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) in the wake of an imaginary earthquake in Russia s Sakhalin Oblast.