Minister: about 1,000 servicemen, who participated in Nagorno-Karabakh war granted various degree disabilities.
YEREVAN, March 24. /ARKA/. About 1,000 servicemen, who participated in last year's war in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) have been granted various degree disability, Labor and Social Affairs Minister Mesrop Arakelyan told the parliament today.
According to the minister, about 500 citizens received severe wounds (1 and 2 degree disability), including 50 people with 1 degree disability.
About 120 people need prosthetics. About 500 people have received minor injuries and will receive or have already received the 3rd degree disability.
The Armenian government has unveiled today a package of amendments to the laws on the rights of people with disabilities and on the assessment of the functional capabilities of the individual and a number of related laws.
According to Arakelyan, the purpose of the draft laws is to create equal opportunities for the participation of people with disabilities in all areas of public life, elimination of discriminatory manifestations and providing appropriate targeted services according to their needs.
On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and phosphorus weapons.
After 44 days of the war, on November 9, the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities. According to the document, the parties stopped at where they were at that time. The town of Shushi, the districts of Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin were handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.
A Russian peacekeeping contingent was deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and adjacent regions, prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead are being exchanged.--0-
