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Restorations in liberated lands – Azerbaijan’s message to int’l organizations: Ahmadov

Politics Materials 28 January 2017 14:53 (UTC +04:00)
Restoration of the liberated Azerbaijani lands, starting with one village, is a message to international organizations that were created to solve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Restorations in liberated lands – Azerbaijan’s message to int’l organizations: Ahmadov

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 28

By Ilhama Isabalayeva – Trend:

Restoration of the liberated Azerbaijani lands, starting with one village, is a message to international organizations that were created to solve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, says Ali Ahmadov, deputy prime minister, deputy chairman and executive secretary of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP).

He believes that the order of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on restoration of the Jabrayil District’s Jojug Marjanli village, liberated from occupation, is a historic step and a historic decision.

The president’s order is one of the most important steps in the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Ahmadov told reporters in Baku Jan. 28.

“This is a harbinger of the beginning of great events. By this, Azerbaijani society, the country, government and Azerbaijan’s president once again showed the resolve to return our occupied lands. The position of our society is that Azerbaijan will at all costs liberate the occupied territories and they will be restored. Our IDPs will return to their lands, their homes. Thus, Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity will be restored and a great historical injustice will be eliminated,” he said.

Ahmadov noted that the work in Jojug Marjanli will be carried out using the state funds.

“But I believe, with liberation of the Azerbaijani lands, international and economic organizations will support the restoration of our lands and provide grants. But this is a matter of the future,” he added.

President Ilham Aliyev signed an order Jan. 24 on measures to restore the Jabrayil District’s Jojug Marjanli village, liberated from the Armenian occupation in April 2016.

The State Committee of Azerbaijan for Affairs of Refugees and IDPs will receive 4 million manats from the Presidential Reserve Fund for 2017 for construction of 50 houses, a school building and the relevant infrastructure at the first stage, according to the order.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.

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