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By Rashid Shirinov

Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) has cleared more territory in the liberated Jojug Marjanli village of Azerbaijan’s Jabrayil region on March 5.

The village was liberated by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces from the Armenian occupation in April 2016.

ANAMA noted that it’s employees discovered 105 fragments of exploded ammunition in the cleared area of 200 square meters, adding that no mines or unexploded ordnance were found.

In general, a territory of 841,422 square meters and 122 houses have been cleared in Jojug Marjanli since the beginning of the mine clearance operations.

Earlier, on March 1, ANAMA informed that it had cleared a territory for construction of 50 houses in Jojug Marjanli and construction companies carried out works on laying the foundation and began construction of houses. Currently, ANAMA carries out work in the territory where more 150 houses are planned to be built.

Jojug Marjanli village was fully liberated from the Armenian occupation in April 2016, when Azerbaijani Armed Forces prevented an Armenian provocation on the contact line. To protect civilian population, the Azerbaijani army launched counter attacks and as a result, the Azerbaijani troops retook hills around the village of Talish, as well as Seysulan settlement, and also took over Leletepe hill located in the direction of Fizuli region.

In late January, President Ilham Aliyev ordered to restore Jojug Marjanli. Under the order, 4 million manats were allocated for the construction of 50 private houses, a school building and relevant infrastructure at the first stage.

Moreover, President Aliyev signed an order on additional measures to construct the road leading to the liberated Jojug Marjanli village and allocated 4.3 million manats from the state budget for the construction of 9 km long highway in the village.

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

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