Azerbaijan starts providing optic internet to liberated Lachin

Azerbaijani telecommunication services provider Aztelekom has started creating an internet infrastructure in the liberated city of Lachin.

“Along with the city of Lachin, GPON [Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network] technology will be applied in the villages of Zabukh and Sus of this region. After completion of the works, 250 households in the village of Zabukh and 75 in the village of Sus will be able to use the services,” Caliber.Az reports, citing the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport.

With the introduction of the new technology, subscribers are offered high-speed (from 30 Mbit/s to 100 Mbit/s) Internet packages.

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 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.