Baku / 08/31/19 / Turan: 26 years ago - on August 31, 1993, the armed forces of Armenia occupied the Gubadli region of Azerbaijan.
The territory of the district is 802 square kilometers, and its population is 30 thousand people. During the defense of the area, 283 soldiers were killed.
Currently, refugees from Gubadli live in various settlements of Azerbaijan.
"Armenia, grossly violating the Geneva Convention, continues to change its geographical names and loots the region, illegally populating it with people of Armenian ethnicity," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the occupation.
In UN Security Council resolutions 874 and 884, the fact of the occupation of Azerbaijan"s territories by Armenia was sharply condemned. -02D-
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