Information about Azerbaijan's landmine problem presented in UN Security Council

Despite the end of the conflict, Armenia refuses to share complete and accurate information about the location of the mines it placed on the territory of Azerbaijan, Yashar Aliyev, the permanent representative of Azerbaijan to the UN, said at the open session of the Security Council, according to Report.

The ambassador said that with this, Armenia is deliberately delaying the reconstruction efforts of Azerbaijan in the region occupied by Armenia for 30 years and the return of hundreds of thousands of IDPs to their homes.

The conflict has also made Azerbaijan one of the most heavily mine-contaminated countries in the world, with an estimated 1.5 million mines and an unknown number of unexploded ordnance posing serious risks to civilians in the region, Yashar Aliyev said.

The diplomat noted that in the post-conflict period, the number of people affected by mines reached 360. Of them 68 were killed and 292 were seriously injured.