(MENAFN- AzerNews) By Vugar Khalilov
US Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI) will provide some 15 dogs to
the Azerbaijani Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) by the summer of 2023,
Azernews reports, citing the agency.
The Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI) has been effectively
cooperating with Azerbaijan for the past 25 years. ANAMA has
received 60 mine-detection dogs so far, making it one of the
Marshall Heritage Institute's largest recipients.
The agency will be provided with 15 more mine-detection dogs,
bringing the total number of dogs sent to ANAMA to 75.
The Marshall Heritage Institute, one of the major
non-governmental organizations in the field of humanitarian
demining in the United States, named Goshgar Karimov, an ANAMA
demining dog guide, and his demining dog Tori the best team of
2022.
The winners will be honored at the Marshall Heritage Institute's
annual banquet in Washington, DC. Karimov, and Fikrat Aliyev,
another ANAMA employee, have traveled to Washington to accept the
award for the best team of the year.
The Azerbaijani embassy in the US hosted an official gathering
to commemorate this historic occasion. A representative from the US
Defense Department, the Marshall Heritage Institute's board of
directors, supporting organizations, and officials from other
humanitarian demining groups attended the gathering.
Azerbaijani Ambassador to the US Khazar Ibrahim, executive
director of Marshall Heritage Institute Elise Becker, and Goshgar
Karimov spoke at the meeting. The speakers highlighted their
satisfaction with the Marshall Heritage Institute's engagement with
Azerbaijan in the sphere of humanitarian demining and underlined
the need for developing cooperation.
Later, Karimov showed to the attendees the finding and
neutralization of a buried conventional mine using a mine-detecting
dog.
In addition, Karimov, accompanied by a mine-detecting dog,
visited numerous secondary schools in Virginia, providing
educational material on the landmine problem affecting Azerbaijan
and demonstrating the detection and neutralization of a
conventional mine by a mine-detecting dog.
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