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Azerbaijan's AzerGold talks inventory of deposits in liberated territories

Economy Materials 6 January 2023 17:41 (UTC +04:00)
Sadraddin Aghjayev
Sadraddin Aghjayev
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 6. The process of inventorying precious metal deposits is being completed in Azerbaijan’s Zangilan district and Lachin, Deputy Chairman of AzerGold CJSC Oktay Mammadov told reporters, Trend reports.

According to Mammadov, in some areas, this work is still ongoing.

The official stressed that in parallel, work is underway to assess the damage caused by Armenia during the occupation of these territories.

"Azerbaijan has the full legal right to monitor and inventory its deposits in the liberated territories, and in legal terms, we don’t see any obstacles for this," he said.

Mammadov stressed that Armenians have been illegally exploiting Azerbaijani deposits for decades, grossly violating environmental norms and standards for the mining industry.

This ecological terror can negatively affect not only the Karabakh economic region, but also other regions of Azerbaijan, and the South Caucasus as a whole added the official.

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