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    Anti-Mines Training Will Be Launched Saving Azeri Lives

    Baku Today
    May 12 2004

    About 40,000 secondary school students will be trained in anti-mine
    precautions in Azerbaijan.

    Azerbaijan Education Ministry, Azerbaijani Anti-mines agency and
    UNICEF have agreed to launch an educative project for schoolchildren
    of bordering with the Armenian occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

    The project has been allocated for the students from Agdam, Fizuli
    and Khanlar regions.

    The project would aim at raising mines awareness among youngsters to
    preventing their lives from becoming mine targeted.

    Anti-mines agency's direcor Nazim Ismayilov said, the statistics of
    the past years has shown that 16 per cent of those killed in mine
    explosions were children aged 14.

    Roughly 500 specialists will train the students

    The project is worth $ 70,000.
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