ANAMA continues demining operations in front-line areas

/By Azernews/

By Nazrin Gadimova

Azerbaijan’s National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) continues demining operations in country’s regions adjacent to the front-line area.

As a result of monitoring of Azerbaijan’s Terter, Goranboy, Aghjabadi, Agdam and Fizuli regions from April 7 to April 17, the agency has found and detonated 137 unexploded ordnances (UXOs).

Currently, special quick reaction forces are continuing demining operations using sniffer dogs.

Country’s Terter region has been suffering from Armenia’s attacks most of all. During the recent provocations in Nagorno-Karabakh, the village has become the main target of the Armenian belligerent army. Within three days, Armenian armed forces have fired Gapanli, targeting mainly civilians using heavy artillery weapons.

Armenia launched military attacks towards Azerbaijan on April 2. As a result of armed clashes residents of the Azerbaijani villages adjacent to the contact line of troops were subjected to enemy’s shelling.

Military operations were stopped on the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian armies on Apr. 5 at 12:00 (UTC/GMT + 4 hours) with the consent of the sides. However, Armenia has ignored the agreement and started violating the ceasefire again.

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 the surrounding districts.