Azerbaijan's Mine Action Agency has found and rendered harmless about 600 mines and unexploded ordnance on territories liberated from Armenia's occupation in a 44-day war in autumn 2020.

The Azerbaijani Mine Action Agency has found and defused 8,972 anti-personnel and anti-tank mines and 6,569 pieces of unexploded ordnance since its search operations from September 27, 2020, the agency reported on its website.

President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on ensuring the activity of the Mine Clearance Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Azertac has reported.

Azerbaijan's State Border Security Service and Mine Action Agency have made public details of demining operations on territories liberated from Armenia's occupation in a 44-day war with Armenia in 2020.

A specialist of Azerbaijan's Mine Action Agency has been seriously wounded in the blast of an anti-personnel mine in liberated Aghdam region, the agency press service reported on January 29.

Azerbaijan's Mine Action Agency has made public details of its search operations carried out in various parts o the country between January 22-27.

An employee of the Azerbaijani Mine Action Agency has been wounded in a landmine blast in liberated Jabrayil region, the Prosecutor-General's Office reported on January 22.

Some 270 pieces of unexploded ordnance, 77 pieces of anti-personnel mines, 12 pieces of anti-tank mines, 1 piece of mortar shell designed for training purposes and 11 pieces of exploded shell remnants have been found as part of search operations, the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (former ANAMA, National Agency for Mine Clearance of the Territories of Azerbaijan) said in its operational report for January 15-17.

Engineer and sapper units of the Azerbaijani armed forces continue to clear liberated territories from mines and unexploded ordnance, the Defence Ministry has reported.

The Russian Emergencies Ministry's crew of 20 people has begun to demine the territory of Azerbaijan's newly-liberated Aghdam region since January 4, Trend quoted a Russian official as saying.