Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli residents returning home PHOTO

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

Residents of Fuzuli, previously temporarily settled in dormitories, sanatoriums, children's camps, unfinished and administrative buildings in various districts of the country, left for their native lands from the Gobu Park 3 residential complex in the Garadagh district of Baku, Caliber.Az reports.

At this stage, 39 more families – 172 people are returning to Fuzuli city.

To date, 705 families, or 2,689 people, permanently live in Fuzuli.

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

Proceeding from 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.