Families who returned to Azerbaijan's Fuzuli city receive keys to apartments UPDATE/PHOTO

On September 11, another group of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who left the Gobu Park 3 residential complex in the Garadagh district of Baku has already arrived in Fuzuli and keys to apartments were handed to them.

The keys were presented by Eldar Seyidov, an employee of the President's Special Representation in the liberated territories of the Garabagh Economic Region, and Natig Huseynov, Director of the Repatriation Department of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs, according to Report.

Thus, 24 families consisting of 92 people were provided with permanent residence in Fuzuli town.

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In line with the instructions of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the return of former internally displaced persons to the reconstructed city of Fuzuli continues.

On September 11, another convoy of cars with former internally displaced persons left the Gobu Park 3 residential complex in the Garadagh district of Baku, Caliber.Az reports.

At this stage, 24 families consisting of 92 people went to Fuzuli.

Thus, the permanent residence of 119 families, or 441 people, in the city of Fuzuli has been ensured. Families resettled in Fuzuli will live in newly built houses.

Earlier, on September 7, 25 families totalling 102 persons relocated to Fuzuli.

On August 18, 23 families were resettled in Fuzuli City as part of the Great Return program implemented by the Azerbaijani government.

Azerbaijan started the return of former internally displaced persons to the liberated lands in July 2022. 

The government of Azerbaijan plans to resettle 2,000 families or 10,000 people in the Garabagh and East Zangazur economic regions by the end of 2023.

According to a decree signed in November 2022 by President Aliyev approving the "First State program on the Great Return to Azerbaijan's liberated territories”, a total of 280,000 hectares (692,000 acres) of lands in the Garabagh and East Zangazur regions will be readied for resettlement by 2026.

By 2026, a total of 34,500 families will be relocated to the Garabagh and East Zangazur regions. To accommodate them, 34,500 apartments and private houses will be built by 2026.