(MENAFN- AzerNews) By trend
Azerbaijan's Parliament has supported the peaceful
protests of Azerbaijanis on the Shusha-Lachin road, trend reports.
During the Parliament's session, MP Siyavush Novruzov
stated that the environmentalists of Azerbaijan have been
protesting against the plundering of natural resources and damage
to the environment of Azerbaijan for several days.
'We are with them, and we support them. We believe
that they are on the right path, and we are going to support them
to the end. The active involvement of our youth in this peaceful
protest is commendable,' he said.
MP Nurullayev noted that the peaceful protests should
have taken place a long time ago.
'The Armenians use this road for plundering, they
commit environmental terror on our territories. I believe it is
necessary to widen the process and increase the demands,' he
said.
Representatives of Azerbaijani non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) have been protesting near Shusha, close to the
Russian peacekeepers' temporary deployment area, for the fifth day.
The protest is being held against the inadmissibility of
Azerbaijani specialists to the territory, to monitor the illicit
exploitation of the country's mineral resources.
Previously, following the talks with the Russian
peacekeepers' command on December 3 and 7, 2022, a group of experts
from the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the State
Property Service under the Ministry of Economy, and AzerGold CJSC
were going to begin preliminary monitoring of the illicit mineral
resource exploitation, as well as emerging environmental
implications on Azerbaijani lands, where the Russian peacekeepers
are temporarily deployed, on December 10, 2022.
The expert team was expected to inspect the
environmental condition at the 'Gizilbulagh' gold deposit and the
'Damirli' copper-molybdenum deposit, monitor various areas,
organize cadastral property records, assess potential risks and
threats to the environment, as well as to underground and surface
water sources.
However, when arriving in the monitoring area, the
expert group, accompanied by Russian peacekeepers, faced
provocations. The planned initial inspection and monitoring did not
take place due to the fact that the Russian peacekeepers not only
did not create necessary conditions and prevented for the entire
process to carry on.
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