(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Details added, first version posted 10:22
BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 25 . Armenia should be
pressured to provide accurate minefield maps to Azerbaijan,
reports
citing the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Azerbaijan about the threats as a result of the mining of
Azerbaijani territories by Armenia.
After the liberation of Azerbaijani territories from Armenian
occupation as a result of the Second Karabakh War, one of the main
threats that hinder large-scale restoration and construction work
carried out in the post-conflict period, threats to the military
and civilian population working in these territories, as well as
the return of forced internally displaced persons and peaceful
residence in their native lands is the purposeful mining of
Azerbaijani territories by Armenia, which has been carried out over
the past 30 years and continues to this day.
The statement said that Armenia violates paragraph 4 of November
10, 2020, continues to carry out illegal military activities and
not only doesn't withdraw its forces from the territory of
Azerbaijan but also keeps laying a large number of anti-personnel
mines on the territory of the country.
'In general, over the past 30 years, the number of victims of
mine explosions in Azerbaijan amounted to 3,345 people. A total of
266 citizens became landmine victims, of which 48 people died,
including three reporters from the end of the Second Karabakh War.
Of the 45 dead, 35 are civilians. Moreover, 38 women and 357
children became the victims of landmines over the past 30 years,'
the statement informed
'As of August 2022, after the Armenians left the territory of
the Lachin district, more than 1,400 E-001M mines, manufactured in
Armenia in 2021, were found on the territory, as well as new booby
traps were found on the doorsteps of houses and in courtyards in
Zabukh and Sus villages of Lachin district on October 3, which
indicates the scale and severity of the threat,' said the
statement.
'The laying of the mines on the territory of Azerbaijan once
again demonstrates that, despite the fact that the Lachin corridor
is intended only for the passage of civilians, goods and vehicles
in accordance with paragraph 6 of the tripartite statement, the
abuse of this road for the illegal military activities of Armenia
continues. It also demonstrates that claims that Armenia allegedly
didn't produce or export mines over the past decades are not true,'
the statement said.
Will be updated
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