On February 9, a meeting was held with the representatives of the Natural Disasters and Emergency Situations Agency (AFAD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkey at the Monitoring Center of the Republic Seismological Service Center of ANAS.

According to the information given to APA by the center, the meeting was attended by the general director of the National Institute of Natural Sciences under ANAS, the corresponding member of ANAS, professor Gurban Yetirmişli, the head of the AFAD delegation, professor Bahadır Aktuğ, the employees of the Earthquake Department of AFAD Vedat Ozsarac, Derya Aksel, the National Institute of Natural Sciences Saida Ismayilova, PhD in Earth Sciences, head of the "Earthquake Research Bureau", deputy head Rugiyya Karimova, head of the "Dynamics of Earthquake Foci" department, PhD in geology-mineralogy, associate professor Sabina Kazimova, head of the "Geodynamics" department, geology-mineralogy Doctor of philosophy in mineralogy, associate professor Ilyas Kazimov, head of international relations department Telman Jafarov participated.

In the meeting, issues of bilateral cooperation between RSXM and the Earthquake Department of AFAD, projects to be implemented jointly, issues related to the seismic station to be installed in Shusha were discussed.

It should be noted that Telman Jafarov, head of the international relations department of the Republic Seismological Service Center under ANAS, and Vedat Ozsarac, representative of the Earthquake Department of AFAD, visited Shusha for the purpose of inspecting the selected area for the seismic station to be installed in Shusha.

During the visit, the Turkish expert got acquainted with the area where the seismic station will be installed.

It should be noted that works related to the installation of a seismic station near Shusha have already started, and the equipment of that station will be donated to Azerbaijan by the brotherly Republic of Turkey.