US to send trained bomb-sniffing dogs to Azerbaijan

A series of meetings of the delegation headed by the Chairman of the Board of the Azerbaijani Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) Vugar Suleymanov continues in the United States.

During the visit, the Azerbaijani delegation met with the leadership of the Marshall Heritage Institute, the Mines Advisory Group America, the Defence Security Cooperation Agency of the US Department of Defence, the World Bank, the US Department of State and House of Representatives, as well as with several leading US congressmen, Caliber.Az informs, citing ANAMA.

At the meetings of the delegation from the US State Department, as well as with the leaders of the House of Representatives and congressmen, information was provided on the scale of mass contamination of the liberated territories by mines.

In addition, the meeting discussed issues of increasing the existing US support for humanitarian demining activities carried out in Azerbaijan.

During the meeting, an agreement was reached that to support the ongoing humanitarian demining operations in Azerbaijan, the US-based Marshal Legacy Institute (MLI) will send an additional number of specially trained sapper dogs.

The organisation expressed its satisfaction with the long-term cooperation with ANAMA.