Presidential aide reveals latest number of landmine victims in Azerbaijan

  30 May 2024    Read: 780
  Presidential aide reveals latest number of landmine victims in Azerbaijan

Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev has revealed the latest number of mine victims in the country, AzVision.az reports. 

Posting an image indicating the number of mine victims on X, Hajiyev said: "Mine victims in Azerbaijan continue to grow. Innocent civilians and landmine clearance operatives are the main victims. Armenia implanted millions of landmines in the formerly occupied lands of Azerbaijan." 

An international conference on combating mines will be held today in Zangilan.

After the second Karabakh war in 2020, landmines have claimed the lives of more than 360 people in Azerbaijan's liberated areas, resulting in 68 fatalities and over 290 injuries.

 

AzVision.az


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