After nearly three decades of Armenian occupation, Azerbaijan's city of Shusha – once known as the Pearl of Karabakh – is ready to welcome back its former residents as the traces of the destructive occupation are erased.
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The UK has provided half a million pounds to help clear landmines in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, to make the area safe, prevent injuries and save lives.
Environment is one of the key areas of concern for the entire international community in view of global climate change, land desertification, and shortage of clean drinking water.
People all around the world are already feeling the negative effects of global warming: water supplies are shrinking, extreme weather events increasing in frequency and intensity, forests burning, and coral reefs dying.
After the September-November war of 2020, Azerbaijan liberated its seven occupied territories and established rule over Karabakh. A significant share of that region went under the control of Russian peacekeepers, who are said to stay for five years.
The territories of Azerbaijan, occupied by Armenia, were actively used for illegal activities for almost 30 years. Both government-backed Armenian companies and numerous transnational corporations used to conduct business in this gray area. These businesses mostly operated in mining, finance and telecommunication sectors.
The Russian military has blamed Azerbaijan for breaching its volatile truce with Armenia for the first time since deploying its peacekeeping mission, South Caucasus media reported Friday.
According to reliable sources, units of the Armenian Armed Forces have been actively redeploying across the territory within the area of temporary responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Karabakh in the past few days.
The aim of those who want a special status for Armenians in Azerbaijan is not to solve the problem, but to deepen it, and even to create new areas of intervention in the future by providing a special status and even acting as its guarantor.
Earlier in the day, Aliyev met with a Serbian delegation led by Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic. Both sides expressed support for each other's territorial integrity.
A new Baku-Yerevan agreement on the handover of 15 Armenian ex-convicts in a swap for mine maps in liberated Fuzuli and Zangilan regions has been hailed by experts as President Ilham Aliyev’s diplomatic mastery and as another success of the Azerbaijani diplomacy.
It is no coincidence that the Azerbaijani government has repeatedly stated that it does not recognize the "NKR" as a party to the conflict, stressing that Nagorno-Karabakh has historically been and will be part of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan has been erasing traces of over three decades of Armenian occupation from the city of Shusha, considered to be the country's historical, cultural and arts capital.
Turkish contractors play a key role in the reconstruction of liberated regions in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov told Hürriyet Daily News.
Reza Deghati, an award-winning French-Iranian photojournalist, has revealed his new project: “Karabakh by Drone.” And his heartrending photos and videos lay bare the systematic destruction and vandalism that the disputed, landlocked mountainous region of Karabakh has faced as a result of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.
Outside the town of Agdam, in the foothills of Nagorno-Karabakh, trucks and tank carriers had left tracks in the muddy road. Bomb craters and mangled military vehicles hid in the fog. Artillery dugouts lay behind a defensive embankment, some still covered with camouflage netting. In Soviet times, these fields were state-owned vineyards whose grapes produced a fortified white wine named after the nearby town.
Moscow believes it will be wrong to mix the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement-related issues with the relations the region's countries have with other states, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said when asked about Azerbaijan's latest summit level contacts with Turkey.
Currently, the border dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, including the most recent tensions in the Syunik region (Zangezur in Azerbaijani), has raised the question of security and durable peace in the region. Moreover, Armenia’s upcoming elections in June 2021 are transforming the situation in the country into deep political turmoil.
Iranian Ambassador to Baku Seyed Abbas Mousavi said the Islamic Republic is ready for demining and rebuilding the liberated areas in the Karabakh region.
Last Friday, on June 4th, a landmine explosion in the Kalbajar region of Azerbaijan killed two Azerbaijani journalists, Maharram Ibrahimov and Siraj Abishev, and local official Arif Aliyev, while four other people were wounded.
It's 170 kilometers (106 miles) from the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to the mountainous region of the Armenian province of Gegharkunik. Since the last clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh, it has become the border area between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The death of two Azerbaijani journalists and a local government official in a land mine explosion has drawn attention to the ongoing danger of unexploded ordnance in the territories that Azerbaijan retook in the war last year.
The 2020 war over Nagorno-Karabakh left many issues unresolved and the front lines volatile. The parties should establish a formal communication channel to address urgent post-war problems, Russian peacekeepers need a clearer mandate and aid agencies must be granted access to the conflict zone.
Nagorno-Karabakh settlement would not have its maximum effect without considering the interests of Turkey and Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.