Azerbaijan demines over 98,000 hectares of lands Statement by National Agency for Mine Action

Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Azerbaijani National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) Samir Poladov has said that to date, more than 98,000 hectares of territory have been cleared of landmines in Azerbaijan.

“Tens of thousands of anti-tank mines had been revealed,” Poladov told journalists at the World Habitat Day forum, Trend reports.

“Among them are unexploded ordnance and anti-personnel mines. Most of the revealed mines are plastic anti-tank mines. It is difficult to detect them due to the small volume of metal. Most mines are of Armenian origin. Work in this sphere is underway,” he noted.