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The project of clearing the mines, which are left from the Nagorno-Karabakh War, is still in progress with funding by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

In a film, entitled “Karabakh: Peaceful Life near the Ghosts of War,” USAID/Armenia Mission Director Karen Hilliard informed that with their support since 2000, demining operations were performed in 251 fields, owing to which it became possible to carry out agricultural work in a 27,000-hectare area.

“According to estimations, solely 5 percent of the total mined areas remain non-cleared.

“But I believe that within the framework of the $5 million grant our partner Halo Trust has provided, the whole area will be completely free of mines as of 2016,” Hilliard stated, in particular.

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