(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Vugar Khalilov
France has delivered demining equipment to the Azerbaijani Mine
Action Agency (ANAMA), Azernews reports, citing French Ambassador
to Azerbaijan Zacharie Gross.
'Last week, France delivered more than 300 high-quality demining
toolkits that will help ANAMA accelerate Azerbaijan's humanitarian
demining action,' the ambassador tweeted .
Earlier, the ambassador noted that France is keen to donate
€400,000 (AZN 803,272 or $472,752) to support mine clearance
operations in liberated lands.
In the near future, a document is envisaged to be signed
covering areas, such as support for demining operations, assistance
to persons who suffered from mines, and the implementation of
projects to raise awareness of the dangers of explosives.
It is worth noting that during the Second Karabakh War, French
President Emmanuel Macron and some French circles failed to
demonstrate a neutral position, despite the fact that France is a
co-chair in the OSCE Minsk Group mediating talks between Baku and
Yerevan.
In contradiction to the mandate of the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chair, only the interests of Armenia were protected and an
inadequate position, which did not meet the requirements of a
balanced and fair co-chairmanship, was displayed. Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev and other top officials have repeatedly
denounced this approach.
All cities, including hundreds of towns, settlements, public and
private properties, and countless infrastructural facilities, were
entirely destroyed as a result of the Armenian invasion and
occupation of Azerbaijani territory for about three decades.
Everything on these lands was destroyed not only during the war
but also during the occupation period. Simultaneously, Armenia
deliberately and persistently laid mines on Azerbaijani territory,
in violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention, posing a significant
danger to regional peace, security, and cooperation.
Currently, the demining activities, as well as large-scale
reconstruction work are underway in Azerbaijan's liberated
territories.
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