Armenia continues to use white phosphorus projectiles against civilians - Presidential Aide, VIDEO

  04 November 2020    Read: 789
  Armenia continues to use white phosphorus projectiles against civilians - Presidential Aide,   VIDEO

Armenia continues to use white phosphorus projectiles against civilians in Tartar region, Assistant to the Azerbaijani President, Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev tweeted, AzVision.az reports.

Unexploded phosphorus ordinance was neutralised by ANAMA, he said.

"Weapons containing white phosphorus are extremely toxic when inhaled, ingested, or absorbed through burned areas and can have severe negative impacts on human health. Such weapons cause severe, partial to full-thickness thermal and chemical burns. Armenia used phosphorus UXOs," Hajiyev wrote.

Attacks on civilians or civilian objects as well as on forests or other kinds of plant cover White Phosphorus shells prohibited under the Protocol III on Prohibitions or Restrictions on Use of Incendiary Weapons of UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980, Hajiyev added.

 


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