2024-06-08 22:05:06
Writer: Nizami Safarov,
Member of the Authorized Coverage and State Constructing Committee of the Milli Majlis
Some of the critical obstacles to the institution of worldwide peace and safety within the South Caucasus area is Armenia’s ongoing mine terrorism towards Azerbaijan. Some of the efficient means to stop such a risk of humanitarian catastrophe scale that we face, to scale back the influence of landmine air pollution on the setting is to mobilize the help and monetary assets of the worldwide group and worldwide organizations. The primary aim of this exercise is to guard the lives of our residents and enhance the setting.
Undoubtedly, mines and different explosive gadgets are essentially the most acute downside, primarily directed towards the safety of the civilian inhabitants. From the tip of the Second Karabakh Battle till right this moment, 361 folks had been injured because of 212 mine explosions, 68 of them had been killed, and 293 had been severely injured. On the whole, the statistics of the occupation interval present that the variety of mine victims is 3435 folks. The non-presentation of sincere mine maps by Armenia to the Azerbaijani facet makes demining work extraordinarily troublesome and creates obstacles for the return of 800,000 IDPs to their native lands.
One other significant issue brought on by mines is said to the ecological system. After almost thirty years of occupation, 10,285 sq. kilometers of our liberated territories had been contaminated with mines and different explosive gadgets. Mines which were below the bottom for a very long time and haven’t but been neutralized hurt the setting because of chemical reactions, and their explosions result in the air pollution of our territories with plastic waste. As well as, fast erosion processes are noticed in lands left unused because of mining.
Because of constant efforts of the related constructions of our state, roughly 140 thousand hectares of land had been cleared of 119 thousand 946 mines and numerous explosive gadgets. The profitable continuation of demining actions creates fertile situations for environmental restoration and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Improvement Targets, and on the similar time, the combination of the exercise talked about in accordance with the objectives of COP29, which will probably be held in November this 12 months in Azerbaijan, with the efforts to stop local weather adjustments, inexperienced power in our territories free of occupation will give a critical impetus to the formation of the zone.