Ecology ministry: Armenia destroys natural resources of occupied Fuzuli region of Azerbaijan

The natural resources of the Azerbaijani Fuzuli region occupied by Armenia are destroyed, the Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry reported on Saturday.

The ministry's operations section supervising the devastating effects to the environment and natural resources in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan has identified a number of facts of destruction of natural resources by Armenians in the Fuzuli region in the occupation period. 

Armenians cut down all the trees in the Dovlatyarli village located in a forest zone, destroyed green spaces along the roads in the Gochahmadli and Yaglivand villages, and burned down more than 35,000 hectares of land in 2006-2009.

51 villages and center of the Fuzuli region were occupied by the Armenians Aug.23, 1993 and more than 55,000 inhabitants left their Native Land. The territory of the Fuzuli region is 139, 393 sq.km, of which 125,368 sq.km is under occupation.

There are two limestone deposits Dovlatyarli and Dilagar in the Fuzuli region. The deposits with reserves of 58,858 cubic meters are suitable for the production of stone-cube. The region also has the Kurdmahmudlu clay deposit suitable for the production of bricks and keramit, whose  general reserves amount to 11, 211 cubic meters, and the sand- gravel deposit Guruchay, whose reserves amount to,13 053 cubic meters.

11 eastern plane trees, which aged from 200 to 1,400 years, have been registered in the Fuzuli district and protected until the occupation. The hydrogeological expedition conducted in 1960-1980 on the mountain and foothill areas of the Fuzuli region discovered water complexes of the Jurassic period.


/Trend/