“Azerbaijan is among the countries most contaminated with mines in the world,” the Chairman of the Board of the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAMA), Vugar Suleymanov, told a public hearing held on November 4 at the parliament themed “Tackling the Threat of Landmines: The Impact of Explosives on the Ecosystem," Report informs.
He said that these hidden seeds of death not only pose a direct threat to people's lives and health but also harm the ecosystem and seriously affect people's well-being and social development: “During the occupation, Karabakh and Eastern Zangazur were destroyed by Armenian military units and, according to estimates, were polluted with about 1.5 million mines and explosives. With a minimum calculation, this means 480 tons of plastic mass contaminated with harmful substances.”