The President of the Republic Mr. Nikos Christodoulides chaired today, at the Presidential Palace, a ministerial meeting on fire management and suppression.
In a statement to journalists after the meeting, Government Spokesman Mr. Constantinos Letibiotis said: "the meeting was attended by the Ministers of Agriculture, Defence, Justice, Interior, the Deputy Minister to the President and the Advisor to the President for Civil Defence and Security, Mr. Bustras."
The meeting was exclusively devoted to discussing the prevention and response to fires in view of the summer season. The existing plans for prevention and response have been discussed and what has been decided in the first stage is to assign the Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture to have the coordinating role of the existing plans, and similar meetings will be held in the near future under the Director General so that we can prepare for the summer season.
Each Ministry, each Minister, depending on their responsibilities, have held relevant meetings with the Departments of which they are responsible.
