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02 April 2010 [13:52] - Today.Az
Demining of the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia requires
about $1 billion and this will take 8-12 years, Director of the
Azerbaijani National Agency for Mine Actions (ANAMA) Nazim Ismayilov said.
He said these works will be carried out within the framework of "A
great return" project of World Bank and the Azerbaijani government.
Over the past 10 years, the agency demined 126 million square meters of
the Azerbaijani territory, over 600,000 unexploded ammunitions that
remained over from Soviet times were detonated, he said at the news
conference on results of the agency's work in this area.
Currently, the agency holds mine clearance work in the country's 10
regions and the work is expected to be completed by 2013. ANAMA has a
task to prepare a national capacity of personnel in this area to demine
the occupied territories immediately after their liberation, he said.
/Trend/
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