Last Week, Almost 200 Mines Neutralised In Azerbaijan's Liberated Areas
Date
6/29/2024 10:17:54 PM
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
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Fatime Letifova
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On June 17-23, 108 anti-tank mines, 79 anti-personnel mines, and
204 unexploded ordnances (UXOs) were detected and neutralised in
the liberated areas.
Azernews reports that 946.3 hectares of land
have been cleared of mines. It should be noted that ANAMA, the
Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the
State Border Service carried out demining operations.
Note that the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action, known
as ANAMA, has grown from a fledgling organisation to one fully
equipped to clear mines, provide risk education, and assist
survivors of accidents. Today, ANAMA's efforts are aimed at
continuing the increase and expansion of mine action capacity to
provide clearance of all liberated areas of Azerbaijan.
Despite attempts at formally requesting information about the
location of those mines, Armenia repeatedly denied that it
possessed the relevant information and refused to engage on the
issue.
Finally, in February of this year, Armenia submitted 8 minefield
maps of territories located in the liberated lands to Azerbaijan.
These maps cover some of the areas along the former contact line.
However, the maps covering part of the former contact line passing
through Khojavand, Tartar, and Goranboy districts, as well as the
areas mined by Armenian military units when they retreated in
November 2020, have not been submitted yet.
Many have suspicions about these maps because previous minefield
maps submitted by Armenia were inaccurate. Only 25 percent of these
maps were correct. Especially submitting minefield maps of the
heights where civilians do not live increases this suspicion. It is
also worth noting that more than 55% of recent landmine cases have
occurred outside the areas covered by the information provided.
The behaviour that Armenia displayed in relation to the landmine
threat is indeed another setback to the peace-building and
confidence-building measures taken during the post-conflict period
in the region.
It is worth noting that because Azerbaijan's liberated
territories remain contaminated with mine, the new infrastructure
and green energy projects remain a risky and problematic goal.
These obstacles to a legal peace are part of the challenges facing
the repopulation, development, and integration of the liberated
territories on the path to a full peace.
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