Azerbaijan’s Shukurbeyli revival continues as 52 residents return home Families receive keys to new apartments / PHOTO / UPDATED

Former internally displaced persons who arrived in the village of Shukurbeyli in Azerbaijan’s Jabrayil district have been handed the keys to their apartments.

At this stage, nine families comprising 52 people have been resettled in the village as part of the ongoing return process, Caliber.Az reports per local media.

Representatives of the Special Representation of the President of Azerbaijan in Jabrayil, Gubadly and Zangilan districts, as well as the State Committee for Affairs of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, attended the key handover ceremony.

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Another group of former internally displaced persons has departed for the village of Shukurbeyli in Azerbaijan’s Jabrayil district as part of the Great Return program being implemented in line with the instructions of President Ilham Aliyev.

A total of nine families, comprising 52 people, are returning to the village at this stage, Azerbaijan’s State Committee for Affairs of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons told Caliber.Az. The returnees had previously lived in dormitories, sanatoriums, and administrative buildings after being displaced from their homes.

The residents returning to their native village expressed gratitude to President Ilham Aliyev and First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva for the comprehensive support provided by the state.

They also thanked the Azerbaijani Armed Forces for liberating the territories from occupation, enabling displaced families to return to their homes.

By Jeyhun Aghazada