Azerbaijan unveils number of mines victims

To date, about 3,300 people have been killed by mines.

Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elnur Mammadov said this while speaking at the Baku International Conference of Ombudsmen and National Human Rights Institutions on "The role of Ombudsmen and National Human Rights Institutions in the field of business and human rights," Report informs.

According to him, the return of citizens who left their lands as a result of the Armenian occupation is a priority issue: “Over the past two years, more than $3 billion has been allocated from the state budget for the restoration of the liberated territories. The infrastructure in these territories was completely destroyed by the Armenians. Now we need to restore these territories from scratch. However, the contamination of these territories with mines by Armenians is the main obstacle to the restoration work. Armenians still refuse to issue maps of minefields. And their accuracy is less than 25 per cent.”