(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 6. The territories of
Azerbaijan remained under the occupation of Armenia for many years,
Chairman of the Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of
Turkic-Speaking Countries (TURKPA) on the Environment, Natural
Resources and Health Protection, MP Ahliman Amiraslanov said at a
meeting of the commission, trend reports.
As a result of the 2020 second Karabakh war, the Azerbaijani
army liberated the country's lands, Amiraslanov reminded.
“During the occupation, Armenia not only destroyed our cities
and villages, but also caused serious damage to the environment -
they committed ecological terror,”
'Armenians are still committing environmental terror in the
territory of Azerbaijan. Our environmental activists and
representatives of non-governmental organizations are holding a
protest rally and demanding an end to environmental terror,' he
added.
The peaceful protest on the Lachin-Khankendi road against the
illegal exploitation of Azerbaijan's mineral resources in the area
of Russian peacekeepers' temporary deployment has been going on
since December 12, 2022.
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, the expert group, accompanied by Russian peacekeepers,
faced provocations when arriving in the monitoring area. 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 but also prevented the entire process from
carrying on.
Comments
No comment