Baku clarifieв what is happening on the Shusha-Khankandi road /UPDATED/

Negotiations between employees of the Ministry of Ecology of Azerbaijan, AzerGold CJSC and the State Service for Real Estate Affairs with the command of Russian peacekeepers were held at the headquarters of the peacekeeping forces in Khojaly.

They were completed at 6 pm on Saturday. According to the Ministry of Ecology, during the discussions, the Azerbaijani side once again expressed reasonable dissatisfaction with the illegal exploitation of minerals in Karabakh, in the territories where Russian peacekeepers are temporarily stationed.

  “In this regard, the importance of monitoring, inventorying property and environmental studies at the fields where illegal mining is carried out was noted,” - the Ministry of Ecology noted.

  At the end of the meeting, employees of the Ministry of Ecology, the State Service for Real Estate Affairs and AzerGold CJSC returned to Shusha.

Based on the results of discussions with peacekeepers, the preparation of a road map for activities in the specified territory with the participation of representatives of various institutions of Azerbaijan has started, the report says.-0-

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2022 December 03 (Saturday) 19:25:09

Baku clarifieв what is happening on the Shusha-Khankandi road /UPDATED/

After 3 hours of negotiations with the peacekeepers, employees of the Ministry of Ecology and AzerGold, accompanied by Russian peacekeepers, drove to Khankyandi, where issues of monitoring in the Karabakh region were discussed. This was reported in the Ministry of Ecology. The results of the negotiations are not reported. -0-

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2022 December 03 (Saturday) 15:00:01

Baku clarifieв what is happening on the Shusha-Khankandi road /UPDATED/

Illegal exploitation of natural resources is taking place on the territory where Russian peacekeepers are temporarily stationed in Karabakh. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence, on the basis of a request from the country's Ministry of Ecology, contacted Russian peacekeepers to monitor and verify the illegal exploitation of minerals.

On 3 December 2022, around 11:00 a.m., officers of the Ministry of Ecology, State Service for Real Estate and "AzerGold" came to the Russian peacekeepers' roadblock between the cities of Khankandi and Shusha.

"The work of a group of experts in the areas of temporary deployment of Russian peacekeeping forces in order to investigate and control illegal exploitation of minerals and environmental damage caused by them is being discussed with the command of peacekeeping forces," the Ministry of Ecology said in a statement. The public will be informed of the results of the negotiations," the Ecology Ministry said.

It is worth mentioning that since that moment the traffic along the Lachin corridor has been stopped. -02В-

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2022 December 03 (Saturday) 14:07:38

Armenians report blocking of Lachin corridor

Baku/03.12.22/Turan: At around 1pm on Saturday, Azerbaijanis blocked traffic along the Lachin corridor.

This happened when pulling up to the town of Shusha, Armenian sources claim. They claim that a group of men in plain clothes did this.

The Azerbaijani side has not yet commented on the situation. 

Military expert Elkhan Shikhaliyev, in an interview with Turan, noted that it is correct to talk about taking the road under the control of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, and not blocking it. 

"This has been expected for a long time. Iranian terrorists penetrated into Karabakh through the Lachin road, weapons were transported from Armenia. It is advisable to take the Lachin road under strict joint Azerbaijani-Russian control in order to put an end to disagreements with the Russian Federation over its use by Armenian armed formations," the expert said.--0--