Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev signed an Executive Order setting up a Government taskforce to eliminate consequences of a flood as a result of the rise of water level in the Kur and Araz rivers.
The taskforce will be chaired by Prime Minister Artur Rasizade. It will consist of deputy prime ministers Abid Sharifov and Ali Hasanov; emergency situations minister Kamaladdin Heydarov; interior minister Ramil Usubov; finance minister Samir Sharifov; health minister Ogtay Shiraliyev; ecology and natural resources minister Huseyngulu Baghirov; agriculture minister Ismat Abasov; transport minister Ziya Mammadov; communication and information technologies minister Ali Abbasov; minister of labor and social protection of population Fizuli Alakbarov; education minister Misir Mardanov; head of the Department for work with regional administration and local self-governance bodies at the Presidential Administration Zeynal Naghdaliyev; chairman of the State Committee on Property Issues Karam Hasanov; chairman of the State Land and Cartography Committee Garib Mammadov; chairman of the State Urban Planning and Architecture Committee Abbas Alasgarov; chairman of the State Statistical Committee Arif Valiyev; chairman of the State Social Protection Fund Salim Muslumov; president of the Melioration and Water Industry OJSC Ahmad Ahmadzade; president of the Azersu OJSC Nizamaddin Rzayev and president of the Azerenerji OJSC Etibar Pirverdiyev.
Under the order, the taskforce must prepare and submit - within a month - to the President proposals on measures to restore and reconstruct the economy and social, agrarian, municipal, power, communication, transport and other infrastructures of the flood-hit regions.
The taskforce must also submit - within two months - to the Head of State proposals on a complex plan of action to prevent similar disasters in future.
The President also instructed the taskforce to keep him and the general public informed of the course of the implementation of the order.{nl}