16.4% of the liberated territories of Azerbaijan have been cleared of mines

Baku/17.04.23/Turan: From November 10, 2020 to this day, 38,726 hectares of the liberated territories of Azerbaijan have been cleared of mines,the special representative of the President in these territories Emin Huseynov stated  on April 17 at the scientific and practical conference held in Shamakhi: "Investment attractiveness of territories liberated from occupation". According to him, this is 16.4% of the total area to be cleared. "The polluted area is so large that in two and a half years, only one sixth of it has been cleared.

57,876 mines and unexploded ordnance were found. According to this indicator, Agdam is in the lead, where 27.5% of the territory has been cleared, 25% - in the Fuzuli district, 16.7% - in Terter, 5.1% - in Khojavand, 15.8% - in the Khojaly district. However, only 6 villages of Khojaly are under the control of Azerbaijan in this area," he said.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan, since the cessation of hostilities in accordance with (November 10, 2020) to date, 51 people have been killed and 240 injured in various degrees during the detonation of mines laid by Armenians. According to experts, there are still hundreds of thousands of mines in these territories. ---03---