ANAMA finds grad rocket engine in Tartar region
By Laman Ismayilova
Azerbaijan’s National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) continues demining operations in the country’s regions adjacent to the front-line area.
During the inspection in the front-line areas on June 23, ANAMA found four unexploded ordnance (UXOs), Azertac reported.
The engine of Grad rocket “9M22U”, fired by Armenia, was detected in the Jamilli village of Tartar region, two shells of 82 mm caliber in Horadiz village of Fuzuli region.
A shell of 125 mm caliber -- was detected in Gushchu Ayrim of Gazakh region. ANAMA ensured its neutralization via explosion.
The agency inspected and cleansed an area of 12,290 square meters.
ANAMA inspected 619 houses and household plots, 25 farms, five rural schools, two military units and rural cemeteries, a medical center, acreages and winery in Zardab, Tartar, Agjabedi, Agdam, Fuzuli, Tovuz, Goranboy, Gazakh, Samukh, Shamkir, Jalilabad, Ujar and Astara regions, Mingachevir, Baku and Sumgayit. As a result, 1,548 UXOs, 14 anti-personnel and eight anti-tank mines were detected and neutralized in the period April 7 – June 23.
Currently, special rapid response teams of ANAMA with minesweeper dogs continue their operations for detecting UXBs in the border settlements.
Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing of a fragile ceasefire in 1994. Since the war, 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.
While the OSCE Minsk Group acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, the occupation of the territory of the sovereign State with its internationally recognized boundaries has been left out of due attention of the international community for years.
Armenia ignores four UN Security Council resolutions on immediate withdrawal from the occupied territory of Azerbaijan, thus keeping tension high in the region.
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