SHAMAKHI, Azerbaijan, April 17. About 150,000 jobs are expected to be created in Azerbaijan's Karabakh economic region by 2030, the Special Representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the liberated territories of the Karabakh economic region (except Shusha district) Emin Huseynov said, Trend reports.
Huseynov made the remark during a scientific and practical conference on the investment attractiveness of liberated territories held in Shamakhi.
“The number of jobs in the Aghdam Industrial Park is expected to reach 5,000, in the agriculture sector - from 15,000 to 17,000, in the mining industry and tourism - from 1,500 to 2,000, and SMEs - from 10,000 to 11,000,” he noted.
Back in January 2023, Chairman of t he State Employment Agency under Azerbaijan's Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population Mustafa Abbasbayli told Trend that the employment in liberated lands is expected to develop in two directions.
First direction is for people who return to Karabakh within the framework of the ‘Great Return’ program. The second direction is for those citizens, who have already been involved in labor activities on liberated lands.
In March 2023, Special Representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the liberated territories of the Karabakh Economic Region (except Shusha district) Emin Huseynov said that residents who returned to Azerbaijan’s liberated Talish village have been provided with jobs.