Azerbaijan’s focus to future: Restoration of liberated lands – MENAFN.COM

Azerbaijan’s focus to future: Restoration of liberated lands – MENAFN.COM

With a peace deal now in place and restoration of territorial integrity, Azerbaijan has shifted its focus to the future. After Azerbaijan's victory in the Second Karabakh War and liberation of its territories, hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis displaced from there in the early 990s have hope to finally return home. However, it is a long road due to mines, lack of housing, and infrastructure. Rebuilding communities, restoring prosperity, and preserving the region's rich cultural heritage is the cornerstone of the country's current policy. Nowadays, the process of restoration of Azerbaijani territories liberated from the Armenian occupation is proceeding at a rapid pace. The restoration of these territories means building the infrastructure of a modern state and its economy from scratch: demining the territory, the restoration of transport infrastructure, the construction of houses and industrial buildings, etc. As a result of Armenian aggression and occupation of Azerbaijani lands for almost three decades, all cities, including hundreds of settlements, houses, public and private property, numerous infrastructure facilities were completely destroyed. Everything on these territories was destroyed not during the war, but during the occupation period. Speaking about the scale of destructions on Azerbaijani liberated territories, President Ilham Aliyev said in an