Some 22 families resettled in Aghali receive house keys

As part of the next stage of the Great Return, 22 families, totalling 106 people, resettled from Baku city to Zangilan District's Aghali village were welcomed in the village on August 12.

The residents of Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan districts, which are part of the East Zangazur Economic District, were met in the "smart" village by employees of the special representation of the Azerbaijani president, Report informs.

Heads of families of the resettled Aghali residents were handed keys to their houses.

As of today, 108 families with a total number of 526 people have been resettled to the Aghali village of Zangilan District within the Great Return Project.

Azerbaijan started the return of former internally displaced persons to the liberated lands in July 2022. Since then, 96 families have been brought back to the Aghali village of the Zangilan district.

In March of this year, 20 families comprising 90 people resettled in Talish, Tartar district. By the end of 2023, the Sus and Zabukh villages of Lachin will also welcome their residents back.

The government of Azerbaijan plans to resettle 2,000 families or 10,000 people in the Karabakh 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 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.

The Lachin district was returned to Azerbaijan on December 1, 2020, after 28 years of being under illegal Armenian occupation following the terms of a Russian-brokered ceasefire deal that sealed the victory of Azerbaijan over Armenia.