(MENAFN- AzerNews) By trend
The peaceful rally continues on Azerbaijan's Khankandi-Lachin
road to stop the illegal exploitation of Azerbaijan's natural
resources, and to allow their monitoring, trend reports from the scene.
At present, the Azerbaijani protesters are chanting slogans
about the need for primary monitoring of the environmental
catastrophe and other implications stemming from the illicit
mineral resource exploitation. Peaceful protesters say they're not
going to leave the area until their demands are met.
All conditions for the movement of supply vehicles of Russian
peacekeepers [temporarily stationed in Azerbaijan following the
trilateral statement of Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian leaders
after the 2020 second Karabakh war] were created on the
Khankandi-Lachin road passing through Shusha. During today, 25
supply vehicles of peacekeepers have passed along the road without
any incidents.
Representatives of Azerbaijani non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) have been protesting near Shusha, close to the Russian
peacekeepers' temporary deployment area. 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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