The PACE rapporteur, Bosnian MP Milica Markovic August 24-27 will visit Azerbaijan for preparation of the report: "The intentional deprivation of water of the inhabitants of the frontline areas of Azerbaijan."
As the press service of the Council of Europe said, within the framework of the visit meetings will be held at the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture. It is also scheduled to meet with the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, representatives of the JSC Irrigation and Water Management, the World Bank and civil society.
Markovic will also hold talks with representatives of local authorities of the Agdam, Agjabedi, Barda, Goranboy, Tartar and Yevlakh regions.
In 2014, she already visited Azerbaijan with a similar mission. The initiative of the preparation of this report belongs to Azerbaijan in connection with overlapping of the water flow from the Sarsang water reservoir by the occupation regime of Nagorno-Karabakh. The water used to provide irrigation of arable lands in low-lying Karabakh. -06D-
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