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By Rashid Shirinov

Azerbaijan’s National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) has inspected six craters, an acreage and pasture on August 9. As a result, the Agency detected and collected fragments of several exploded ammunition, including parts of Grad rocket “9M22U”.

The Agency cleansed an area of 8,500 square meters in the Agdam and Terter regions, ANAMA’s press service said.

From April 7 to August 8, the Agency experts viewed 642 houses and infields, two military units, five rural schools, two cemeteries, 30 farms, a medical center, a warehouse of scrap metal and acreages in Zardab, Tartar, Agjabadi, Agdam, Barda, Fizuli, Goranboy, Tovuz, Gazakh, Agstafa, Samukh, Goygol, Shamkir, Jalilabad, Ujar, Astara regions, and in cities of Mingachevir, Sumgayit, Ganja and Baku.

As a result, ANAMA discovered and defused 3,470 UXO, 15 anti-personnel mines PMN, three anti-personnel mines POMZ-2, an anti-personnel mine OZM-72, and 24 anti-tank mines.

Currently, mobile groups of ANAMA continue their operations on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops and in the territories with schools and other facilities.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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