BAKU: Another group of former internally displaced persons (IDPs), sent from the Garadagh district of Baku, has arrived in Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli city, Trend reports.

At this stage, another 39 families (153 people) returned to Fuzuli.

The group consists of families temporarily settled in dormitories, sanatoriums, former pioneer camps, semi-finished buildings, and administrative buildings in various territories of Azerbaijan, including 27 families (110 people) from Baku, five families (14 people) from Sumgayit city, three families (10 people) from the Fuzuli district, two families (eight people) from the Shamakhi district, one family (seven people) from the Absheron district, and one family (four people) from Yevlakh city.

Families resettled from the cities of Baku, Sumgayit and the Absheron district went to Fuzuli from the Gobu Park-3 town in the Garadagh district, and families who left the city of Yevlakh, Fuzuli and Shamakhi districts joined them in the Fuzuli district’s Ahmadbayli village.

The families wh
o arrived in Fuzuli city were warmly greeted, experiencing the joy of returning to their native land.

Thus, until today, a permanent settlement in the city of Fuzuli has been provided for 822 families or 3,132 people.

Following the liberation of its territories from Armenian occupation in 2020, Azerbaijan initiated the long-awaited ‘Great Return’ program, which envisions the return of IDPs to their native lands.

Overall, along with Fuzuli, the former IDPs have returned to Lachin city, the villages of Talish (Aghdara district), Aghali (Zangilan district), and Zabukh (Lachin district).

Source: Trend News Agency