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| 18:19:22 | 23-09-2005 | Regions |

MINES STILL THREATENING

`Watch out, mine clearing’ – this noticeboard is put up in an area of the
highway Goris-Yerevan which is separated by special tapes. The mine clearing
detachment in Echmiadzin has been working in the Syunik region village
Shournukh for the last year.

In this village which was once inhabited by Azeris there were heated battles
during the days of the Artsakh wars. Seeing that they are about the leave
their houses, the Azeris have mined the area.

15 years have passed; Shournukh has been reconstructed and inhabited,
naturally, with Armenians. What is surprising is that the mine clearing
operations started only a year ago.

The RA Defense Ministry public links department informed that there have
been no accidents. As for the delay of the operations, they said, `The field
is not regulated, and the detachments themselves decide which areas to clear
and when’.