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Azerbaijanâ€™s Ministry of Emergency Situations holds board meeting

18 February 2011 15:29 (UTC +04:00)

Minister of Emergency Situations, Colonel-General Kemaleddin Heydarov gave information about the work done by the ministry in 2010 and spoke about the forthcoming tasks.

Kemaleddin Heydarov said despite the world crisis processes, Azerbaijanâ€™s present situation, sustainable development rate are the results of the successful reforms carried out and proper economic policy pursued by Honorable President Ilham Aliyev, the well-deserved successor of Heydar Aliyev.

According to the minister, the Ministry of Emergency Situations coped with the tasks in 2010, the Ministryâ€™s Office, structures functioned normally, the development of infrastructure continued successfully.

Speaking about the work done to meet the countryâ€™s grain need, Minister touched on the measures taken by the Ministryâ€™s forces under the special instructions of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to eliminate the consequences of the flooding of the Kur and Araz rivers in spring, 2010. Kemaleddin Heydarov also underlined that the Ministryâ€™s forces closely participated in the international rescue operations.

The minister spoke about the measures taken by the Ministry of Emergency Situations according to the Action Plan for the fulfillment of National Strategy for Increasing Transparency and Anti-Corruption Struggle. He noted that the ministry received 58 applications about the illegal actions by its staff members and these applications were reviewed in order considered by the legislation.

During the investigations conducted on the basis of those applications, as well as operational reports, cases of criminal character were identified and 15 materials were sent to the law-enforcement organizations, particularly to the General Prosecutor Office. 12 criminal cases were launched on the basis of those materials. Four criminal cases were related to the corruption of the ministry officials, investigation of two criminal cases were completed and four employees of the ministry were convicted. Besides that, as a result of investigation conducted in 2010, 48 employees of the ministry were punished disciplinary, 18 of them were dismissed from their services, two were reduced to the ranks, two were dismissed from the office and 24 others were punished by other disciplinary measures.

The minister said other criminal cases were about the persons, who swindled money from the citizens introducing themselves as the ministryâ€™s staff members and promising them to fix up them to jobs at the ministry.

Kemaleddin Heydarov said the Ministry of Emergency Situations was always keeping anti-corruption measures on agenda and would continue these measures to identify corruption cases and eliminate conditions causing these cases.