Azerbaijan will sue Armenia in an international court for the payment of compensation, because of damage as a result of the occupation, said Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the State Committee for Work with Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov, APA reports. Hasanov said the appraisements are being carried out with the participation of international experts and the scale of damage is being calculated. According to the first calculations, the occupation has caused more than $300 billion: “The President of Azerbaijan instructed that the appraisements should be carried out at the international level. The document is being developed with the participation of International Society of Appraisers. The document will be prepared by the international appraisers with the participation of Azerbaijani scientists, economists and NGOs representatives. The Azerbaijani government doesn’t interfere in the document and will not interfere. The Azerbaijani side will make a demand for compensation after the document is developed. It is their question whether Armenia will pay this compensation or not. For years, Armenia has not been extracting only minerals, they live at the expense of our other resources.”
The deputy minister said the reason that Azerbaijan had not taken this step up now was any expectation for the settlement of the conflict: “But we didn’t see it and decided so.”
Hasanov said that despite the recovery of economic loss is possible, but the recovery of moral damage is impossible.
/APA/
