Armenia carries out policy of eco-terror - Azerbaijani MFA

  19 July 2017    Read: 3897
Armenia carries out policy of eco-terror - Azerbaijani MFA
Armenia’s abuse of water resources as a means of ecological terror and pressure is a policy that is being carried out at state level, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hikmet Hajiyev told AzVision.az.
Hajiyev noted that this policy is being applied in relation to the rivers flowing through Armenia to Azerbaijan, as well as water resources in Azerbaijan’s occupied territories, including the Sarsang water reservoir.

Our natural water sources are exposed to the excessive pollution which passes through the occupied territories by Armenia.

Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (MENR) regularly holds monitorings in rivers. According to the results of monitoring they observe that the amount of biogenic substances in Kura River and its tributaries exceeded normal level, as a result of direct discharge of domestic waste and industrial wastewater by Armenia without purification. Phenols one of the specific contaminants in the water content exceeds maximum allowable concentration limit (MACL).

In general, before the occupation of the territories Sarsang Reservoir has provided almost 100 hectares of land in territories of 7 districts with irrigation water. But now water is completely cut off from rivers of, totally 1-1.5 cubic meters of water is released per second from the reservoir. People of surrounding areas use this water to solve their domestic problems Excessive chemical poisoning of water in the area causes and venereal and gastrointestinal diseases in humans to be widespread.

The resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of January 26, 2016, set out the requirements for Armenia – to stop using water resources as a tool of political influence and pressure, and to restore international control over the Sarsang and Madagiz dams.

The same document emphasized that Armenia's actions create humanitarian and environmental problems for Azerbaijani citizens.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.

Armenia still controls fifth part of Azerbaijan's territory and rejects implementing four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.

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