SHUSHA, Azerbaijan, January 3. A passenger car
of Russian peacekeepers [temporarily stationed in Azerbaijan
following the trilateral statement signed by Azerbaijani, Armenian
and Russian leaders after the 2020 second Karabakh war] drove
freely along the Lachin-Khankendi road passing near Shusha, without
any problems, Trend reports from the scene.
The vehicle was moving from the Khankendi city in the Lachin
direction.
Earlier, the Armenian media spread more fake news that the
Azerbaijanis allegedly blocked the Lachin-Khankendi road and didn’t
let the supply vehicles through.
The protest on the Lachin-Khankendi road against the illicit
exploitation of Azerbaijan’s mineral resources in the area of
Russian peacekeepers’ temporary deployment has been going on for
the twenty-third day.
Previously, following the talks with the Russian peacekeepers’
command on December 3 and 7, 2022, a group of experts from the
Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the State Property
Service under the Ministry of Economy, and AzerGold CJSC were going
to begin preliminary monitoring of the illicit mineral resource
exploitation, as well as emerging environmental implications on
Azerbaijani lands, where the Russian peacekeepers are temporarily
deployed, on December 10, 2022.
The expert team was expected to inspect the environmental
condition at the ‘Gizilbulagh’ gold deposit and the ‘Damirli’
copper-molybdenum deposit, monitor various areas, organize
cadastral property records, assess potential risks and threats to
the environment, as well as to underground and surface water
sources.
However, when arriving in the monitoring area, the expert group,
accompanied by Russian peacekeepers, faced provocations. The
planned initial inspection and monitoring did not take place due to
the fact that the Russian peacekeepers not only did not create
necessary conditions and prevented for the entire process to carry
on.
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