<b>Group of Experts have had discussions on ways and methods of eliminating faced problems</b><br /> <br /> Azerbaijan Mine Victims Association (AMVA) met with mine victims in Tartar based on the financial support by the Council of State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations within the project of “Investigating the situation of solving social problems of mine victims in different regions of the country and putting the results on a round table of discussion”. Rey Kerimoglu, the head of the AMVA says seventy mine-injured people and their family members from Fizuli, Aghstafa, Aghdam and Tartar participated in the meeting. The representatives from governmental offices of Tartar also joined the event discussing the issues and ways of working them out.<br />
Rey Kerimoglu also gave the aim of the three-month long project: Our main purpose to be achieved from this project is to learn the present situation of social services for mine victims in regions where they are widely populated, doing problems analysis of the situations, and discussing methods of solving the problems.
A public survey of the social problems of three hundred mine victims in Tartar, Fuzuli and Aghstafa where AMVA has regional offices was undertaken with also efforts to look into records of local governmental offices and self-government bodies that are responsible for solving the problems of mine victim. The findings formed the agenda of the discussions.
“The most challenges mine victims face are unemployment, homelessness and lack of free medical services, and very less pension” – stated Mr. Kerimoglu.
The head of Journalist Researches Center Seymur Verdizadeh, the editer-in-chief of the “Aghdam” newspaper Mr. Hetemli Bakhsheish, who himself is a mine victim, talked about the role of media in solving the problems of mine victims.
Information Department of the AMVA