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23 years pass since occupation of Azerbaijan's Aghdam district

Society Materials 23 July 2016 11:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, July 23

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Today, 23 years pass since the occupation of Azerbaijan's Aghdam district by Armenia.

Armenian invaders occupied the major part of the Aghdam district on July 23, 1993. The Armenian aggressors seized around 882 sq km of 1,094 sq km territory of the Aghdam, one city and 80 villages. Some 128,000 people have become internally displaced persons with 17,000 of them being adults.

As a result of occupation of the Aghdam district, Azerbaijan underwent a material damage worth of $6.179 billion. The damage only to the district's agriculture is estimated at 992.8 million Azerbaijani manats. Over 6,000 people died during the fights in Aghdam.

At present, the population growth of Aghdam is 10 percent. IDPs from the Aghdam district have been settled in Azerbaijan's 59 regions.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.

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