11:42 - 12.07.2023

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July 12, Fineko/abc.az. We can already see that the greater part of our country has already been officially declared a “green energy” zone, and against this background, the incident in the Gadabay district is completely unacceptable.

ABC.AZ reports that President Ilham Aliyev said about this as he addressed a meeting dedicated to the socio-economic results of six months of 2023.

“I believe that the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources was negligent as a minimum, it showed lack of control, acted as a passive observer, as a result of which a foreign investor contaminated our nature. People raised their legitimate voice of protest, but did anyone listen to them? No! One day, two days, three days, five days. What was the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources thinking? Wasn’t it aware that there was such a problem? It was either aware but turned a blind eye to it, or it was unaware. Both are not acceptable,” the president stressed.

He pointed out that some of the citizens were provoked and committed inappropriate and illegal acts, and this is intolerable and unacceptable.

“Some of those provocateurs have gone into hiding in Azerbaijan, others have fled abroad. Those in Azerbaijan have already been identified and several have been brought to justice. We will bring those abroad to account. Let no one think that we have forgotten this. Chaos, arbitrariness and provocations in Azerbaijan ended in 1993,” President Aliyev stated.