Monitoring of The Use of Agricultural Lands In The Liberated Territories, report 2023

Published in 2023. In one of the reports published in 2023, Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu investigated the corrupt allocation and usage of land in Karabakh.

The monitoring report revealed that all the companies that rent land in Karabakh either belong to the President’s family or to high-ranking officials.

One of the findings of the monitoring report is the fact that the MoA is the executive body in the process of leasing the lands of Karabakh, and all activities in Nagorno-Karabakh, including the use of land, are directly managed by the Coordination Headquarters (CO) established in the Presidential Administration.

In the course of monitoring and research, it became apparent that the humanitarian mine-clearing activity was not aimed at accelerating the settlement of the population, but rather at clearing arable land of mines and unexploded ammunition and bringing these arable lands into circulation.

Therefore, although there is great interest in demining at the foreign and local level, only four local private companies belonging to state institutions and officials were involved in this process under the general management of the Demining Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan (ANAMA). ANAMA’s embezzlement of large amounts of public funds together with private companies is among the findings of the report.

Ilham Aliyev inspecting corn with the head of Qarabağ Taxil in 2016.

The report also revealed with the help of official documents and facts that
authorities intend to keep 990,723.36 hectares of agricultural lands of Karabakh and will not carry out land reform.