About 10 thousand people will return to Lachin within the next year

Baku/28.03.23/Turan: Within the next year, about 10 thousand residents will return to the Lachin region, President Ilham Aliyev stated  today at  a meeting with Masim Mammadov, the special representative in the Lachin region. 

About 500 individual houses are being built or restored in the city of Lachin. In addition, 8 multi-storey buildings, as well as over 30 public buildings, are being built or overhauled.

These works should be completed by the end of this year, which will allow thousands of people to return to Lachin at the first stage.

In parallel, the reconstruction of the villages of Zabukh and Sus is being carried out, where 1,000 and 300 people will be accommodated, respectively.

Aliyev noted that during the Armenian occupation a settlement was built for foreign Armenians in Zabukh. Azerbaijani military personnel are now stationed there, and new houses are being built for the returning population, Aliyev stressed.

The general plans of the villages of Gulabird and Gorchu have also been approved, where 2,400 and 1,300 people, respectively, will be returned at the first stage.

Thus, at the end of this year, about 10 thousand people will be able to return to the Lachin region. 

He also pointed to the construction of highways and other infrastructure, including generating energy.

A hydroelectric power plant with a capacity of 50 megawatts of energy has already been built in the village of Gulabird.

In general, by the end of this year, the capacity of hydroelectric power plants in the liberated areas will reach 200 megawatts, and in the future - 500 megawatts. Lachin and Kalbajar  regions also have great potential for wind energy. ---06B---