Azerbaijan increases expenditures to rehabilitate liberated lands

The Azerbaijani government has allocated 2.26 billion manats ($1.33 billion) to accelerate reconstruction work in liberated Karabakh and East Zangazur.

"After the increase, these expenditures will amount to 5.26 billion manats [$3.1 billion]," Caliber.Az reported, citing the Finance Ministry’s report on the amendments to the state and consolidated budget of 2023.

In 2021 and 2022, the Azerbaijani government allocated a total of 4.9 billion manats, or nearly $2.8 billion to the large-scale reconstruction and restoration activities in the liberated lands.

The Azerbaijani government launched major infrastructure projects in the Karabakh and East Zangazur regions shortly after they were liberated from nearly three decades of Armenian occupation during a 44-day war in 2020.

According to the preliminary estimates, the amount of material damage caused by Armenians to Azerbaijan’s infrastructure, resources, and citizens totals $818 billion. The environmental crimes caused $285 billion in damages.