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Massive scale anti-personnel mine found in Lachin region
On August 5, as a result of demining activities in the territory of Lachin region, a minefield was found in the ravine gap in the southern part of Kichik Ishigli Mount.
Engineer-sapper units of Azerbaijan Army safely collected and neutralized 102 anti-personnel mines of E-001 М produced in Armenia in 2021.
Necessary measures on clearance the area from mines are being continued.
Politics
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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov left for a working visit to Serbia on Monday.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sent a congratulatory message to the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, on the occasion of Holy Christmas.
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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