Armenia used our water resources on the former occupied territories to create an artificial ecological disaster. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, adopted in 2016 the resolution called “the intentional deprivation of water inhabitants of the front-line regions of Azerbaijan, demanded that the Government of Armenia put an end to the use of water resources as a tool for political influence or pressure. As Azerdead reports, President Ilham Aliyev said this speaking at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly at the level of heads of state and governments.
“Armenia fully ignored this resolution and continued to use the Sarsang reservoir as a tool of humanitarian and environmental terrorism. Intentionally, opening the reservoir during the winter months, Armenia created a flood at the adjacent territories, and overlapping water in the summer months, deprived the water and people who lived In the former frontal zone.
Armenia strongly pollutes the cross-border river Ohchchai. This exposes the environmental system of the territory of Azerbaijan, which flows the river not subject to the restoration of degradation. Unfortunately, some foreign companies participate in this environmental crime.
Armenia illegally exploited natural resources on those who were held under the occupation of our territories, including gold and other precious metals and minerals, exported them to foreign markets. Based on good facts, we revealed foreign companies from various countries engaged in the illegal exploitation of Azerbaijan’s natural resources occupied in the past territories and other illegal activities. We have already begun legal measures against these companies. They will be held accountable for the illegal operation of our natural resources in the occupied in the last territories, “the president said.