“Regrettably, the development of the mining industry in Azerbaijan has not progressed to the required level due to both objective and subjective reasons,” President Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting dedicated to the State Program on the Development of Mining (Metal Ores) and Metallurgical Industry in the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2027–2030, APA reports.
“The objective reasons stem from the fact that many of our deposits discovered during the Soviet era were located in the occupied regions, and the Armenian state continued its policy of aggression, including the plundering of the natural resources belonging to the Azerbaijani people and state,” the head of state noted.
According to President Ilham Aliyev, Armenia destroyed 60,000 hectares of forest reserves in the Kalbajar, Lachin and Zangilan districts during the occupation.
“Suffice it to say that during the period of occupation, 60,000 hectares of forest reserves in the Kalbajar, Lachin, and Zangilan districts were destroyed, plundered, cut down, sold, and subsequently burned by the Armenian state following the Second Garabagh War—during the time when Armenian armed forces were required to evacuate the Kalbajar and Lachin districts, where they were given a grace period of 2–3 weeks. Everyone remembers well that they were destroying trees while not forgetting sanitary fixtures either. Apparently, there were two things most valuable to them: first, completely destroying Azerbaijani nature, and second, taking the most valuable sanitary appliances with them. That is likely the main memento of the occupation period for them,” the President of Azerbaijan emphasized.
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