“in order to facilitate the regional peace and cooperation, the United States decided to allocate $ 500,000 for humanitarian mine clearance operations in areas affected by intensive hostilities between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops in the South Caucasus in the fall of 2020.” According to Turan reports this in the press release of the US Embassy.
US funding will be aimed at increasing the technical capacity of organizations for demining and neutralizing deadly ground mines and unexploded ammunition.
The United States is the world’s largest sponsor of the destruction of conventional weapons, invested from 1993 more than $ 4 billion in more than 100 countries to eliminate threats created by land mines and unexploded ammunition to the civilian population.