NKR PRIME MINISTER: MORE FIRES IN SUMMER

Panorama.am
20:36 16/06/2008

"In recent years Azerbaijan used to accuse NKR side of firing more
border line territories in summer, hence the fire is spread over their
side," announced the Minister of Agriculture of NKR, Prime Minister
Armo Caturyan. According to the Prime Minister the reality is quite
different and the opposite as these are Azeri rural inhabitants who
fire their fields after the harvest.

According to Caturyan they make harvest two month earlier than in our
region, and the fire is spread in hot and dry climate. "I guess those
complains are more like PR campaign. If they are seriously concerned
with those fires, then they should not decline the recommendations of
the OSCE mission in 2006 on the ecological conditions of the regional
countries," he said.