MP: Azerbaijanis expelled from Garabakh to be resettled in Khankendi

The Armenians decided to leave Garabagh because they were ashamed to look in the face of Azerbaijanis.

The statement was made by Gudrat Hasanguliyev, Deputy Chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliamnet’s Committee on Legal Policy and State Construction, at a parliamentary meeting, APA reports.

The MP noted that instead of Armenians, who leave Garabagh without accepting Azerbaijani citizenship, our citizens, who were expelled from Garabagh, should soon be resettled in Khankendi and other regions.

From September 19 to 20, the Azerbaijan Armed Forces conducted a counter-terrorism operation in the country’s Garabagh region to disarm the remnants of the Armenian army. The operation followed the intensifying Armenian attacks on Azerbaijani positions and the recent deadly mine incidents, resulting in the deaths of Azerbaijani police officers and road construction workers. By the cessation of hostilities, dozens of military posts, strongholds and equipment of the illegal military formations were disabled.

On September 20, the so-called "defence forces" of the separatists surrendered, agreeing to full disarmament and withdrawal. Since then, the Azerbaijani army, in coordination with the temporary Russian peacekeeping mission in the Garabagh region of Azerbaijan, has been confiscating arms, ammunition, and equipment from the Armenian army formations. The process will reportedly continue until the illegal armed formations are completely disarmed and removed from the territory of Azerbaijan.