(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 27 . Till this day, about
21 thousand hectares of territories have been cleared of mines on
the liberated lands of Azerbaijan, Minister of Defense of
Azerbaijan, Colonel-General Zakir Hasanov said in an interview with
AZERTAG, Trend reports.
'Experts of the engineering and fortification units of the
Turkish Armed Forces provide us with direct assistance in clearing
our liberated territories of landmines and unexploded munitions.
Thus, Turkish instructors, together with the personnel of
engineering units, conduct special courses on mine clearance and
other courses that meet international standards. By the way, I
should note that the personnel of engineering units in total
cleared about 21 thousand hectares of our territories from mines
and unexploded munitions in our liberated territories. During the
clearing of territories, 9464 unexploded munitions, 6126
anti-personnel mines, 2172 anti-tank mines, and in general about 18
thousand munitions were found and destroyed,' he said.
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