BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 1. Only 25 percent of the minefield maps provided by Armenia to Azerbaijan, were useful, Hikmat Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration, said, Trend reports.
Hajiyev made the remark at the opening of the "Humanitarian de-mining and sustainable development goals" international conference.
According to him, the lands of Azerbaijan liberated from Armenian occupation [in the 2020 second Karabakh war] are among the most mined territories in the world.
The president’s assistant stressed that Armenian occupiers planted millions of mines during the occupation.
"Instead of planting trees, they planted mines. As a result of the explosions, both military and civilians were killed and injured," Hajiyev emphasized.
He noted that Azerbaijan is carrying out large-scale de-mining works in the liberated territories.