Dozens more Azerbaijani families to resettle in liberated Aghali village

The Azerbaijani State Committee for Refugees and IDPs held a drawing of lots among families that will be relocated to Zangilan Districtəs Aghali village at the next stage on August 4.

The event was attended by representatives of the special representative office of the president in Zangilan district, which is part of the East Zangazur economic region, the Executive Authority of Zangilan district, APA reports quoting the Committee.

Some 22 families consisting of 106 persons participated in the draw. According to the composition, nine of them are provided with three-room, nine with four-room and four with five-room residential houses. These families live in the cities of Baku and Sumgayit, in places of temporary settlement in the Absheron region.

According to the schedule, the families participating in the draw will be resettled in the Aghali village on August 12.

The Azerbaijani government launched the Great Return program to relocate former IDPs to their homes in liberated territories. In 2022 and 2023, hundreds of people were resettled in the Zangilan district’s Aghali village, the Tartar district’s Talish village and Lachin city.

The conditions for the return of approximately 34,500 families to Karabakh should be created within the framework of the state programme by 2027.

Large-scale urban development projects have been launched alongside Shusha since last year, and communal and social infrastructure is being formed in Aghdam, Fuzuli, Zangilan, Lachin, and a number of other settlements in the liberated territories.

The return of former internally displaced persons to the liberated territories is defined as one of the five priorities of the national strategy of Azerbaijan until 2030. The main road map in this regard is the "I State Program on the Great Return to the Liberated Territories", approved by President Ilham Aliyev in November last year and under which the construction of roads, water and other utilities, network and other infrastructure should be accelerated. All this will ensure the process of fast and comfortable resettlement of citizens in the near future. And the most important of the tasks of Karabakh's revival is the rapid implementation of projects in the field of electricity and gas distribution infrastructure.