Illegal Exploitation Of Azerbaijan's Natural Resources Must Be Stopped - Minister
Date
3/16/2023 8:03:39 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) AGHDAM, Azerbaijan, March 16 . Illegal
exploitation of Azerbaijan's natural resources must be stopped,
Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev during
strategic consultations on cooperation between Azerbaijan and the
UN in Aghdam city, trend reports.
“We demand creating all necessary conditions for our specialists
in the areas of natural resources' extraction in order to monitor
the current state of the environment,” Babayev noted.
Azerbaijan's Aghdam hosts strategic consultations on cooperation
between Azerbaijan and the UN.
The event is attended by the heads of Azerbaijan's Ministries of
Ecology and Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Health, the State
Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture, the State Committee
for Family, Women, and Children, the Azerbaijan National Agency for
Mine Action (ANAMA), Special Representatives of the President of
Azerbaijan, employees of the Presidential Administration
represented in the Interdepartmental Center operating under the
Coordination Headquarters, as well as senior officials of the
offices of UN agencies operating in Azerbaijan.
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.
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