ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS OF EARLY FIRES IS THE BURNING OF THE HARVEST REMAINS BY AZERBAIJANI FARMERS

armradio.am
16.06.2008 17:49

The Azerbaijani side has again brought up to date the issue of arsons,
which supposedly take place on the Karabakhi territory. Commenting
on the situation, the Deputy Prime Minister of Nagorno Karabakh,
NKR Minister of Agriculture Armo Tsatrian said: "In recent years,
at the beginning of summer, the Azerbaijani side has made it a rule
to accuse the Karabakhi side of the frontier territory arsons, as
a result of which the fires allegedly spread over to the Azerbaijani
side. In reality everything is to the contrary. One of the main reasons
of early fires is the burning of the harvest remains by Azerbaijani
farmers. On the Azerbaijani side the harvest ripens two weeks earlier
than in the NKR, which is conditioned by the climatic zone. In dry and
hot weather the anabatic wind prevailing in our zone quickly spreads
the fire from the Azerbaijani territory to the territory of the NKR. It
is no coincidence that every year the fires start when the harvest of
the grain crops in Azerbaijan’s flat regions bordering the NKR is over.

"The fuss made by the Azerbaijani side over the fires is exclusively of
propagandistic character. If Azerbaijan was really anxious about the
early fires, it wouldn’t have rejected the recommendations worked out
as a result of the visit to the region of the OSCE-led Environmental
Assessment Mission to fire-affected territories in 2006. The mission
refuted all the accusations of the Azerbaijani side suggesting the
parties a number of recommendations on prevention of fires and joint
struggle against them.

However, by Azerbaijan’s fault neither of them was implemented.

Moreover, the official Baku even refused to participate in the
meeting to discuss the results of the mission and the report prepared
by it. Such a stance of the official Baku convincingly demonstrates
Baku’s real motives in initiating the discussion of fires in political
organizations," Armo Tsatrian noted.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress