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“Six years after Azerbaijan’s Victory, the liberated territories entered a large-scale reconstruction phase. The first State Program for the Great Return will be completed this year, and the next program will cover 2027-2030.”
“Operative Information Center-OMM” reports that Milli Majlis member Vugar Bayramov made the remarks at a plenary session of the National Assembly held today.
He said that, during the initial phase, it was necessary to build transport, social, utility and other infrastructure in the territories that had been completely destroyed and reduced to ruins during the occupation:
“During this period, 26 billion manat has been allocated from the state budget alone to rebuild these territories. Since the Victory, construction has been under way on 64 roads in the liberated territories, with a combined length of 3,720.5 kilometers. Construction has been completed on 17 roads, spanning 1,338 kilometers. Three strategically important international airports have been commissioned. Alongside strengthening national security and defense capabilities after the Victory, intensive settlement in the liberated territories has been a key priority. Nearly 100,000 citizens now live, work and study in these territories. Of them, 41,213 are former internally displaced persons who have settled there permanently. The largest number of people have settled in Aghdam district, where 8,300 people have already made their homes. In Jabrayil district, 7,112 former internally displaced persons have returned to their ancestral lands. The development of infrastructure is creating a strong foundation for intensive settlement.
Mass resettlement will take place in these territories in the coming months and in 2027. Every former internally displaced person will be offered a home in their ancestral land. No former internally displaced person will be left out of the process. During this period, President Ilham Aliyev has visited the liberated territories more than 600 times. During these visits and events, the head of state has laid the foundations of more than 180 projects and attended the opening of more than 170 facilities. No head of state in the world has visited one region so many times. This once again confirms the President’s special attention to the settlement and reconstruction process. Since the Victory, Garabagh’s economy has grown fourfold. The total output across the main sectors of the economy in the Garabagh economic region stood at 1 billion 548 million manat in 2020; it has now reached 6 billion manat. Since the Victory, the economy of East Zangazur has grown 30-fold, exceeding 4 billion manat. In 2020, total output across the main economic sectors in this region was just 134 million manat. East Zangazur now has an industrial sector worth 100 million manat and an agricultural sector worth more than 170 million manat.”
