BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 29. After the war ended more than 200 people, military and civilians were killed or seriously injured because of the mines, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said addressing the international conference under the motto “South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation”, Trend reports.
"As you correctly mentioned they planted mines after the war ended and we had tragic events and two journalists were killed in Kalbajar on the newly-planed mine. It is very difficult now to demine the area, because physically we don’t have a capacity. And now demining agency was created many years ago. Now we are increasing the number of personnel, we are purchasing the new equipment, new machines, including, very sophisticated like drones which can detect the mines contaminated area, but it takes a lot of time and efforts. So far we had groups of Turkish specialists who helped us to demine but, of course. we will need a broad international cooperation. Armenia unfortunately, was not even reprimanded for that terrible behavior. We find mines now which are newly-planted and in the area which makes them to find is very difficult. So, this is another demonstration of their behavior as we correctly mentioned we gave them from ten to twenty days to leave the territories which they had to leave based on the agreement signed on 10 November. But they used it for planting mines, for burning houses which they did not built, but they settled for cutting trees and for doing other ecological disaster. So, it demonstrates the behavior," the head of state said.