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Director of Radiation Problems Institute of ANAS: Russia is not interested in publicizing the wave and force of Gabala radar stationâ€™s operation

11 January 2012 12:49 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Kamala Guliyeva â€“ APA. â€œAzerbaijan has several times appealed to Russia concerning the assessment of the impact of Gabala radar station on the environment. According to the agreement, a working group is to be established to assess jointly the impact of the radar station on the environment. But they have never given information about the working time, wave and force of the stationâ€™s operation. Russia has never made such a statement,â€ director of the Radiation Problems Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Adil Garibov told APA. He said Russia is not interested in publicizing these details as it is a military secret.
â€œAccording to these data, foreign states can calculate the zone of influence of Gabala radar station and withdraw their objects from these territories. Anyway, these issues should at least be investigated with the military experts of Azerbaijani Defense Ministry and the impact of Gabala radar station on the environment should be publicized though in general,â€ he said.

Director of the institute said Azerbaijan intended to raise cost of Gabala radarâ€™s lease from 7 million AZN to 15 million. â€œRussia promised to reconstruct and modernize the radar station, but it has not still clarified what it will do exactly. The term of lease expires in the end of 2012. If Russia reconstructs and reinforces the radar station in Gabala, its environmental consequences should also be assessed and after that the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources should make statement on it. The assessment document should be submitted to Azerbaijan. I consider that the environmental consequences of reconstruction and modernization, as well as its possible effect on the nearby regions should be reassessedâ€.

Garibov said his institute researched the environment of Gabala radar many times. â€œWe conducted measuring around it in the past two years, but we didnâ€™t identify any dangerous settlement. I am one of the persons demanding closing of Gabal radar station, but unfortunately our joint expedition with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources didnâ€™t identify any abnormal effect. But we didnâ€™t specify the station works or doesnâ€™t work while conducting measuring. This researching work didnâ€™t depend on the station. We would like to conduct measuring in accordance with mutual agreement, when the station operates in the most intensive regime. Only then we can say that Gabala radar station is not dangerousâ€.