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By Rashid Shirinov

The Hungarian government has made a 100,000-euro donation to the Partnership for Peace Trust Fund Project for the clearance of unexploded ordnance in Azerbaijan’s Jeyranchel.

The donation was accredited on the account of NATO Support and Procurement Agency on April 20, 2017, the Hungarian embassy told Trend on April 28.

During the meeting of the Partnership and Cooperative Security Committee in the NATO Headquarters, Turkey as the leading country in the 3rd phase of the Jeyranchel Project and Azerbaijan as the beneficiary country expressed their gratitude to the Hungarian government.

The Hungarian Embassy in Baku is implementing the functions of a NATO Liaison Office starting from January 2017.

A military ground of the former Soviet army exits on the territory of Jeyranchel, located near the state border between Azerbaijan and Georgia. There are a large number of mines and unexploded ordnance on the territory.

Currently, the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) conducts the clearance operation on the territory.

ANAMA was established in 1998 for planning and coordination, management and monitoring of mine action related activities all over the country.

The problem of unexploded ordnance in the country can be divided into the areas of Azerbaijan that are still under the occupation of Armenian forces and other areas of the country.

ANAMA cleared more than 400 million square meters of Azerbaijan’s territory, discovering and defusing over 750,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance since the beginning of its activity. Most of the unexploded ordnance is the result of Armenian aggression.

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

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