Azerbaijani members of
parliament: mass food poisoning in military unit is not provocation
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Article: http://news-en.trend.az/official/parliament/1477220.html 27.05.09 16:47 Azerbaijan, Baku, May
27 /Trend News, J. Babayeva/ Azerbaijani members of
parliament say mass food poisoning in the Garaheybat Troop Training Center in
Garadagh District of Baku is not provocation. "There are no
substantial arguments to blame outside forces for the mass food poisoning in
the military unit. Every issue must be taken under control so that nothing
will intervene with the army building process," Chairman of the National
Security and Defense Committee of the parliament and MP Zahid Oruj told Trend News. As many as 164 soldiers
have been hospitalized with the Military Clinic Hospital for mass food
poisoning in the Garaheybat Troop Training Center in Garadagh district of
Baku. A total of 158 soldiers
returned to the service place after examination. Six of them are still
undergoing treatment as extra diseases have been revealed in them. Their
condition is satisfactory. The Military Prosecutor
Office has filed a suit over the case. Oruj said regulations must
be strictly observed in a large institution such as army. "Food
security, hygienic norms and exercising control over them are major
tasks," he said. The public can not exercise
control over internal condition of every unit of the army, he said. "It is impossible to
control food regime and mutual relations in the army. The units are required
to punish those responsible for such facts so that to prevent it. Negative
cases such as mass food poisoning affect army units, defense sector and
security. Such cases must be a message for us," Oruj said. "This incident shows
that Azerbaijani army has a mechanism to respond to irregularities in time
and take immediate measures. News about food poisoning does not mean that the
army faces problems," head of the Group for Public Control over Army and
member of parliament Aydin Mirzazade told Trend
News. Mirzazade said army is a
complicated mechanism and it can encounter temporary problems. "The army
is valuable specifically when it addresses to problems in time and measures
are taken to prevent it," he said. He said there is mechanism
of public control over the army. Visits to military units in the regions
testify to it. The Group for Public
Control over Army composed of representatives of the Defense Ministry, member
of parliament and NGO representatives was launched after military hazing
facts in the Azerbaijani army were investigated in October 2008. |
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