Over 100 people returning to Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli Great Return project / PHOTO

The former internally displaced people (IPDs) are returning to restored Fuzuli city in accordance with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s instructions.

Another group of people was sent from the Garadagh district of Baku to Fuzuli on March 18. At this stage, 34 more families – 123 people are returning to Fuzuli, Caliber.Az reports.

Thus, to date, 596 families, or 2,245 people, permanently live in Fuzuli.

As a result of the Azerbaijani army’s brilliant victory in the second Karabakh war under the leadership of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the former IDPs are able to return to their homeland voluntarily, safely and honourably after 30 years.

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

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