Azerbaijan authorities have conferred state medals and decorations upon a group of the Russian Emergencies Ministry who took part in mine clearing operations in the Nagorno-Karabakh territories that were handed over to Baku, the national Emergencies Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
“The group of Russian specialists who took part in the operation to clear mines from Azerbaijan’s liberated territories was awarded the Azerbaijan medal <…> and the Emergencies Ministry badge <…>,” the agency reported.
On March 3, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported that Russian specialists identified and neutralized more than 17,000 munitions in Nagorno-Karabakh since early December. The agency added that the humanitarian mine clearance had been completed in three districts of the country.
TASS
