NATO REPRESENTATIVE ASSURES NAMSA READY TO ASSIST AZERBAIJAN IN MINE CLEARING OF OCCUPIED TERRITORIES AFTER LIBERATION

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
July 3 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / Ò corr S. Aghayeva / NATO Maintenance and Supply
Agency (NAMSA) is ready to assist the Azerbaijani Government in the
mine clearing of the occupied territories after their liberation,
the Manager of the Agency, General Karl-Heinz Munzer, stated to
journalists in Baku on 3 June.

NAMSA is now dealing with this practice in the Near East, he said.

The peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can prevent
the threat caused by military ammunition in the region," Munzer stated.

The Agency can assist the Azerbaijani Government with technical
assistance in the clearing the mines in the occupied territories,
he said.

NAMSA is already co-operating with the Azerbaijani Government in
the project at the Saloglu settlement of Azerbaijani Agstafa region
to clear mines that remained during the USSR period. Previously,
the largest in the Transcaucasia ammunition storehouse was located
in Saloglu. As a result of a fire in 1991, uninterrupted explosions
continued for four days in Saloglu.

Another direction in the activities of NAMSA is its participation
in implementing the project on the neutralization of MELANJ missile
fuel. "NAMSA is satisfied with the co-operation from the Azerbaijani
Government in these projects and is interested in further co-operation
in different projects," Munzer noted.

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