Azeri MP`s report at PACE committee exposes damage caused to Azerbaijan`s environment by Armenians

Paris, December 9 (AzerTAc). Member of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), MP Rafael Huseynov has submitted a report to the Council`s committee, exposing the impact of Armenia`s military aggression on Azerbaijan`s environment. Huseynov`s report, called Armed conflicts and the environment, was unanimously approved at a meeting of the PACE Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs. In the report, Huseynov says: “The most damaged zones in this regard are the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven adjacent Azerbaijani districts covering a total area of 17,610 km2. Since the early 1990s, these territories, most of which are suitable for agriculture, have become depopulated and no longer cultivated. This, in addition to all the other consequences, has rapidly led to their erosion.” “The cultivation of narcotics in these territories, subject to no international control whatsoever, stubble burning following the harvest, the burial of nuclear waste from other states and the merciless destruction of the forest cover have all contributed to the prospect of long-term environmental damage. The use of the Bazarchay, Hakary, and Basitchay rivers and other waterways has become impossible as a result of the constant polluting with military, industrial and water-born waste,” the report says. Huseynov notes: “Furthermore, as a result of the military conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the fires regularly started over the last 20 years, some 47 species of plants and 19 species of trees have been eradicated once and for all.”