BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 14. In the liberated
villages of Azerbaijan’s Gazakh district, 157 hectares of land have
been cleared of mines and unexploded ordnance, the Azerbaijan
National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) said in response to a
request from Trend.
During the operations, a total of 1,140 mines and unexploded
ordnance were found and neutralized, including 995 anti-personnel
mines, 97 anti-tank mines, and 48 other unexploded devices.
The villages of Baghanis Ayrim, Ashagi Askipara, Kheyrimli, and
Gizilhajili, which had been under Armenian occupation for 30 years,
were returned to Azerbaijan in May of this year.
The return of these territories followed an agreement reached by
the Azerbaijan-Armenia border delimitation commission on April 19,
2024. As a result, a 12.7-kilometer border line was established,
and the 6.5-square-kilometer areas of the four Gazakh villages were
restored to Azerbaijani control.
