BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 14. “Cronimet”, which has turned the waters of the Okhchuchay River yellow, should come and clean it up, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said during a meeting dedicated to the results of the first quarter of 2022, Trend reports.
"A special report was prepared and adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe a few years ago – a report on Armenia's environmental terror against Azerbaijan. Everything was clearly stated there. We were deprived of water from the Tartar River. However, when Heydar Aliyev built the Sugovushan reservoir, it was intended to irrigate 100,000 hectares of land in Barda, Aghdam, Goranboy, Yevlakh, Aghjabadi and other districts, and water flowed there. We have now returned to Sugovushan, restored the water and new canals will be built. Other rivers too – the people of Azerbaijan and indeed the rest of the world should know what the Armenians deprived us of. The Hakari River, one of the largest rivers, but we could not use its waters. The Bazarchay River. It is also called the Bargushad. The Lev, the Zabukh, the Tutgun, the Turgay, the Basitchay, the Gargarchay, the Guruchay, the Kondalanchay, the Okhchuchay rivers. All these rivers were occupied and mercilessly exploited by Armenians. The catastrophe of the Okhchuchay River is before the eyes of the world now. We have raised this issue," Azerbaijani president said.
"When we raised the issue, we were promised that the company that caused the disaster would come and clean it up. But a year has passed now, but we haven’t received any proposals. “Cronimet” is the company that contaminated the Okhchuchay River. It is a large company, and according to some foreign media, it had an illegal business relationship with representatives of Serzhik Sarkisyan’s former junta regime using corruption schemes. Together they operated the copper plant there. After that, the Armenian government bought this plant from those corrupt Armenians. But should “Cronimet”, the company responsible for this disaster, be held accountable or not? I said that the issue should be raised in international courts. I do not want to go into too much detail now. We will make a legal claim, preparations are underway and international experts have been involved. We will expose the Armenians all over the world for their atrocities. This also applies to foreign companies that have exploited our natural resources. Do the foreign companies that illegally exploited our gold and other fields believe that they will get away with that? They won’t! We will bring them to justice and disgrace them. “Cronimet”, which has turned the waters of the Okhchuchay River yellow, should come and clean it up. Or do they think that time has passed and we have forgotten everything? We have not forgotten and will not forget anything," the head of state said.