Another 16 families resettled in Lachin receive house keys PHOTO

Another 16 families who arrived in Lachin on July 28 received keys to their homes. The keys were handed over to them by children from the families who returned to Lachin with the previous group.

After the meeting of families who left Gobu Park 3 residential complex of Garadagh district of Baku and came to Lachin, a ceremony of handing them keys was held. The families received the keys with great joy and settled in their houses, Azertag reports.

Thus, 168 families, totalling 647 people, have been permanently settled in Lachin city.

It should be noted that all conditions have been created for the resettlement of the relocated families in the houses in which they once lived in Lachin and which were restored or built anew after the end of the occupation on the basis of the instruction of the head of state.

After Azerbaijan regained control of its territories following a 44-day war with Armenia in 2020, the Azerbaijani government approved the “Great Return” program to enable the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their native lands.

Solving the problems of IDPs is one of the priorities of state policy. In this area, the strategic line defined by the Great Leader Heydar Aliyev and continued by President Ilham Aliyev is aimed at improving their living conditions, ensuring their social protection and employment. The voluntary, safe, and dignified return of IDPs to their homeland is an important task.

Azerbaijan earlier made public the number of IDPs to be relocated to liberated Karabakh and east Zangazur by late 2023.
Deputy Chairman of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Fuad Huseynov said earlier that the country plans to return to their native homes in the Karabakh and East Zangazur economic regions about 2,000 families of IDPs by late 2023, that is about 10,000 people.

"In addition, it is planned to return 267 families to the city of Fizuli and about 100 families to the village of Agali in the Zangilan district," Huseynov added.

According to him, 700 families are planning to return to the city of Lachin, and 400 families to the villages of Zabukh and Sus in the Lachin district.