The Armenian Center for Humanitarian Demining & Expertise (CHDE) on Thursday formally handed to Armenia’s Syunik Regional Hall the demined and inspected areas in the region’s Shurnukh village.

As a result of the studies, which CHDE and the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) had conducted, two areas in the village were deemed confirmed hazardous areas (CHAs), and therefore they were not used by the villagers.

But with funding by the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement of the Bureau of Political-Affairs (PM/WRA) of the U.S. Department of State, the HALO Trust organization started in April 2014, and together with specialists from the Armenia MOD Peacekeeping Bomb Disposal Engineer Battalion, and on Tuesday successfully completed the demining of these two CHAs.