BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 25. Azerbaijan
expects Armenia to submit correct maps of all land-mined websites,
the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of Azerbaijan mentioned in a press release,
Pattern stories.
”The Ministry of Overseas Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
takes word of the assertion by the Nationwide Safety Service of
Armenia dated 25 January 2024, on the intention to current landmine
maps to Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s indiscriminate, huge and purposeful planting of
landmines within the territories of Azerbaijan is among the main
threats to large-scale post-conflict restoration and reconstruction
work, the civilian inhabitants residing in these territories, and the
return of IDPs and their peaceable lives of their houses. These
actions of Armenia will not be solely a battle crime, but additionally severe
violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation and Armenia’s
undertaken commitments.
Azerbaijan, each earlier than the 2020 Patriotic Warfare and in the course of the
post-conflict interval, has repeatedly demanded Armenia to submit
landmine maps.
It’s well-known that the accuracy of landmine maps, the
existence of which was denied by Armenia following the signing of
the Trilateral Assertion dated 10 November 2020, however later was
submitted because of worldwide stress, is barely 25%. We
have continuously identified that the supplied maps are ineffective,
incomplete, and don’t precisely painting the truth on the
floor. Though these maps present that solely 400 thousand landmines
had been reportedly deployed in our territories, the precise variety of
landmines surpasses a million.
On the similar time, it’s value noting that greater than 55% of
landmine explosions in recent times occurred in areas outdoors
the areas the place maps had been supplied by Armenia. We remind that 342
of our fellow residents have grow to be landmine victims because the finish
of the Patriotic Warfare in 2020, with 65 people killed, together with
three journalists. Out of 65 useless, 50 had been civilians.
It’s also the truth that, even after 2020, Armenia deployed new
landmines of Armenia manufacturing inside and alongside the sides of
the territory of Azerbaijan the place Russian peacekeeping forces had been
briefly deployed, with about 500 thousand landmines planted. At
the identical time, this proves that there is no such thing as a foundation for the
statements of Armenia declaring that it has neither produced nor
exported landmines in latest many years.
This assertion by the Armenian aspect demonstrates that the
intention of this nation just isn’t a humanitarian one and this step
couldn’t be thought-about as a confidence constructing measure.
Azerbaijan expects Armenia to submit correct maps of all
land-mined websites that haven’t but been totally offered to
Azerbaijan.
Furthermore, pressing measures need to be taken by Armenia to offer
info on fates of 4000 lacking Azerbaijanis, and locations of
mass graves the place Azerbaijanis have been buried during the last 30
years, ” the assertion reads.