Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend K.Zarbaliyeva / The lawsuit of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan regarding eviction of an IDP family from the territory of school was ensured, said the judge of the Yasamal District Court, Tahir Ismaylov, on 17 August.
Due to the lawsuit of the Education Ministry, Yasamal District Court passed a resolution evicting the internally displaced person (IDP), Valida Bagirova, from secondary school No. 20 and transferring her to the kindergarten No. 18. According the resolution, two rooms allocated in the kindergarten will be repaired and issued to the use of Bagirova.
Bagirova's lawyer Famil Mammadov said that they are dissatisfied with the resolution of the Court and will appeal to Baku Appeal Court.
According to the accused IDP, the territory has been issued to her in 1994 by the Director Talib Sharifov. The Executive Power of Yasamal District expressed dissatisfaction with this fact. Bagirova appealed to the Parliament of Azerbaijan and the Parliament imposed a ban to evict the IDP family.
Due to the beginning of repair work at school in January of this year, the Education Ministry decided to evict the family from school. The Ministry argued its decision through the issue that the family prevents the repair work. According to Bagirova, she heard this in hospital and as a result, incurred shock, fainted and broke her leg by falling down.
Defendant said the decision of the Ministry caused worsening of her health. Bagirova stated that she intend to appeal against Misir Mardanov, the Azerbaijani Education Minister, for material and moral damage. "The minister will pay me both for moral and material damage," Bagirova said.
The IDP refuses to move to kindergarten 18, due to bad life conditions in this area.
Elmir Hasanov, the representative of the Education Ministry, said that the construction, where Bagirova resides was built illegally, and hinders to construction work hold in the area of the kindergarten. Hasanov noted that the kindergarten would be re-constructed for better life conditions.
Famil Mammadov, the representative of the defendant, stated that nobody can move internally displaced persons from their residence in compliance with the decree of the Azerbaijani President issued from 1996 and 1998, as well as the State Program on improvement life conditions of refugees and internally displaced persons.
Commenting the statement concerning illegal construction, where resides Bagirova's family, Mammadov noted that the tennis-court was built by the order of the Sport Committee of the former Azerbaijani SSR and was under control of the Tennis Federation and then transferred to the secondary school 20. Due to this reason the construction cannot be considered illegal.
According to the representative of the State Committee on Work with Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, Vugar Garayev, move of refugees can be implemented only by the agreement of the refugees themselves. "We agree to move Bagirova's family within the framework of the bill. The Education Ministry should repair the territory proposed to Bagirova," Garayev added.
The representative of Yasamal District Executive Administration noted that the rooms proposed to Bagirova in the kindergarten 18 are wider than her present residence. According to representative, Bagirova's family may move to new residence after repair work.
With participation of both sides representatives of the Court examined both the present residence of Bagirova and the proposed kindergarten 18.