Media Review for October 24

The newspaper Azerbaijan writes about the successes of the Azerbaijani army, which liberated 3 cities, 3 villages and 149 villages from the Armenian occupation. Now Azerbaijani soldiers are approaching Shusha and Khankendi. In addition, finally, the 132-kilometer border with Iran will again, in 27 years, be under the control of Azerbaijan. The author claims that the flag of Azerbaijan will be flown in Shusha and Khankendi.

The Azpolitika.info website discusses the issue of participation of the Turkish side in the negotiations on Karabakh. The author quotes President Erdogan as saying that Turkey has the same voting rights in the region as Russia. For 30 years, the OSCE has failed to resolve the conflict, so there must be a change in the format of the negotiations. Azerbaijan wishes Turkey’s participation in the negotiations. By the way, Turkey reminds that it cooperated with Russia on the issue of Syria and Libya, which can also be continued on the issue of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

The website Müsavat.com discusses with the Russian political scientist Alexander Karavayev the issue of economic development of the Azerbaijani territories liberated from the occupation. In his opinion, investment in the liberated zone will increase. The main thing is the restoration of territories; there are still many programs with the restoration of land, agriculture and infrastructure. According to the expert, about 50 settlements need to be restored, albeit partially for security reasons. It should also be borne in mind that the number of such settlements will grow along the way. It can be predicted that all this will affect GDP growth in 2020 and 2021 by at least 1.5%, and maybe more, the expert said. According to him, in the first half of 2020, foreign direct investments in Azerbaijan increased by 23.5%, exceeding US $ 2 billion.