BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 23. Travel for Azerbaijani citizens and foreign tourists to the territories liberated from Armenian occupation is being simplified in continuation of the Great Return Project policy, Trend reports, referring to the joint statement of the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport and the State Agency for Tourism.
Until now, citizens have visited the liberated territories only by organized bus tours and group tourist trips in certain directions, but starting from 27 December 2023, citizens will also be able to visit Shusha city and Sugovushan settlement by private cars.
For this purpose, they need to obtain a travel permit (starting from December 25) through the "Yolumuz Qarabaga" site (www.yolumuzqarabaga.az). Travel to Shusha will be possible via the Fuzuli–Shusha highway (also called Victory Road), through the Alkhanli checkpoint of Fuzuli district, and to Sugovushan settlement - through Tartar and Goranboy (Tapgaragoyunlu village) districts.
A number of rules will be applied when issuing travel permits to citizens in the direction of Shusha and Sugovushan settlement. Detailed information on this can be obtained from "Yolumuz Qarabağa" portal.
Personal passenger cars are understood as vehicles with the state automobile registration plate of the Republic of Azerbaijan, corresponding to category B, with the number of seats not more than nine (including the driver's seat). The validity period of permits is two days for Shusha and one day for Sugovushan settlement. In order to streamline travel and ensure the safety of passengers, initially 80 cars will be allowed to enter Shusha and 60 cars will be allowed to enter Sughovushan during the day.
Drivers of passenger cars should familiarize themselves with the travel rules on "Yolumuz Qarabağa" portal, mine safety information and inform the persons who are traveling with them, do not go beyond the route trajectory after entering Azerbaijan's territories liberated from Armenian occupation and undergo appropriate mine safety inspection, be attentive at intersections, drive the vehicle non-stop to the final point of the route. Before traveling, citizens can contact the hotels on the portal and book a room.
Group tours in the direction of Baku-Shusha, as well as bus trips organized through the portal "Yolumuz Qarabağa" will be carried out in the previous order. Conditions for participation of foreign citizens in tourist tours will be created from now on. Local and foreign tourists can apply to any travel company to participate in tours. Group trips in the direction of Sugovushan will be organized by tour companies that are classified as tour operators and tour operators-tour agents in the State Register of Tourism (data.tourism.gov.az).
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