Protesters on Shusha-Khankandi road put forward several new demands

The participants of the protest against the illegal exploitation of mineral deposits in Karabakh on the Shusha-Khankandi road have put forward several new demands, Report informs.

They demanded the restoration of control of all state institutions of Azerbaijan, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Border Service (SBS), the State Customs Committee (SCC) on the sovereign lands of Azerbaijan, and demanded the creation of their separate checkpoints.

Since the provisions of the tripartite statement signed on November 10, 2020 were not fully implemented, the participants of the action also demanded that there should be separate posts of the SBS and the SCC on the border with Armenia in Lachin.

The peaceful protests are currently underway.

A protest action is being held on the part of the road under the control of Russian peacekeepers in the territory of Shusha by Azerbaijani activists and members of environmental non-governmental organizations demanding an end to ecological terrorism in the Karabakh economic region.

As a result of discussions held with the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent on December 3 and 7, 2022, a team of experts from the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the State Service for Real Estate Affairs under the Ministry of Economy and AzerGold Closed Joint Stock Company were set to conduct preliminary monitoring regarding the illegal exploitation of mineral deposits and the resulting ecological and other consequences in the territories of Azerbaijan, where the Russian peacekeeping contingent is temporarily stationed. However, due to the inactivity of the peacekeepers, the monitoring did not take place.