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First settlement in Jojug Marjanli to open in June

3 April 2017 17:59 (UTC+04:00)
First settlement in Jojug Marjanli to open in June

By Rashid Shirinov

The first settlement in the liberated Jojug Marjanli village will be inaugurated on June 15, which is marked as the National Salvation Day in Azerbaijan.

This was said by Azerbaijan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov, during his trip to the liberated Jojug Marjanli village of Jabrayil region.

He added that the first stage of the reconstruction work in Jojug Marjanli will be completed in May.

The village was fully liberated from the Armenian occupation in April 2016, when Azerbaijani Armed Forces prevented an Armenian provocation on the contact line. To protect civilian population, the Azerbaijani army launched counter attacks and as a result, the Azerbaijani troops retook hills around the village of Talish, as well as Seysulan settlement, and also took over Leletepe hill located in the direction of Fizuli region.

“The fights of April 1-4 last year and the achieved victory are the most significant victory of the Azerbaijani army ever since the country became independent,” Hasanov stressed.

In late January 2017, President Ilham Aliyev ordered to restore Jojug Marjanli. Under the order, 4 million manats were allocated for the construction of 50 private houses, a school building and relevant infrastructure at the first stage.

Moreover, the President signed an order on additional measures to construct the road leading to the liberated Jojug Marjanli village and allocated 4.3 million manats from the state budget for the construction of 9 km long highway in the village.

Hasanov noted that the construction of a mosque similar to the Shusha Mosque has also started in Jojug Marjanli.

He said that the restoration of this village and the beginning of its residents’ return has inspired not only IDPs, but also the entire Azerbaijani nation.

“Whole Azerbaijan is talking about Jojug Marjanli. Not only Azerbaijan, the entire world is talking about it. The reconstruction of the liberated village caused a worldwide resonance and it marks the concrete result of foreign and ideological policy of the President,” Hasanov noted.

Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan laying territorial claims on its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.

Peace talks mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. have produced no results so far.

Due to the ethnic cleansing policy carried out by Armenia and the Armenian occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions of Azerbaijan, the number of refugees and internally displaced persons hit more than 1.2 million. With a population of over 9.8 million, Azerbaijan is among the countries carrying the highest IDP caseload in the world in per capita terms.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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