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By Rashid Shirinov

Azerbaijan’s National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) has discovered fragments of an exploded Grad rocket (9М22U) in the Marzili village of Azerbaijan’s Agdam region.

The fragments were removed from the territory, ANAMA told Trend on November 28. The Agency reported that a total area of 3,000 square meters was examined and checked.

Overall from April 7 to November 28, the ANAMA experts viewed 649 houses and infields, three military units, two cemeteries, five rural schools, 30 farms, a medical center, a warehouse of scrap metal, a gravel pit, a reserve, territory of a winery, a train station, and acreages in Zardab, Tartar, Agjabadi, Agdam, Khojavand, Barda, Fizuli, Beylagan, Goranboy, Tovuz, Gazakh, Agstafa, Samukh, Goygol, Shamkir, Jalilabad, Ujar, Astara, Salyan regions, and in cities of Mingachevir, Sumgayit, Lankaran, Shirvan, Ganja and Baku.

Mobile groups of ANAMA continue their operations on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops and in other regions.

Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan laying territorial claims on its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

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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