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By Arslan Abbasov

President Ilham Aliyev visited several Azerbaijani regions last weekend where he inaugurated a number of facilities.

President Aliyev started his visit from the central Saatli region last Saturday.

Aliyev visited a monument to national leader, former President Heydar Aliyev in the center of the town.

The Azerbaijani leader inaugurated headquarters of the ruling Yeni (New) Azerbaijan Party`s regional branch in Saatli and attended the opening of the youth center.

The president also opened a new building of the museum of local lore and picture gallery and a chess school in Saatli.

On the same day, President Aliyev viewed the Saatli Central Hospital after major overhaul.

The hospital has a clinic, departments of surgery, maternity, pediatrics, reanimation, gynecology, and first aid, as well as labs.

The facility has 183-strong staff, including 58 doctors.

Afterwards, Aliyev inaugurated a newly overhauled bridge of the Saatli-Musali-Mazrali highway over Araz River. The over 238 meter-long bridge was reconstructed by Azerkorpu company.

President Aliyev further headed to the country's Beylagan region.

The president visited the monument to national leader Heydar Aliyev in the center of the city.

Aliyev also participated in the opening of the reconstructed Culture Center there.

Then, the Azerbaijani president attended the opening of the Beylagan-Kabirli-Baharabad road.

The 35-km road remained without renovation for years and became unserviceable. Reconstructed in a short time, it will facilitate the movement of local residents. The road, which connects 10 villages of Beylagan region and a settlement for IDPs, who were displaced during the early 1990s war with Armenia, will be used by about 34,000 people.

Aliyev attended groundbreaking ceremony of a reconstructed water supply and sanitation system of Beylagan.

The project is being implemented with financial support of the Asian Development Bank. Under the project, the water supply and sanitation system of the district center will be fully reconstructed and water supplied to two neighboring villages. According to the long-term development plan until 2035, the project is intended to improve water supply to more than 25,000 residents of Beylagan.

Currently, 7,600 people, or 49 per cent of Beylagan residents, receive water from the central network. The rest of the population meets their needs individually.

While in Imishli region, the president visited the statue of Heydar Aliyev in the center of Imishli town and laid flowers there.

As part of his visit to Imishli, President Aliyev attended the opening of the Heydar Aliyev Center. The two-storey building has state-of-the-art design and looks magnificent. The total floor area of the building is 2,000 square meters.

The president also reviewed the Flag Square in Imishli. The total area of the Flag Square is 8,300 square meters, while the height of the flagpole is 100 meters.

Aliyev reviewed a major overhaul of the central district hospital as well.

Then the president attended the opening of the pedigree poultry farm Araz in Imishli. The factory is to produce 10 million eggs per year. The enterprise operates a fodder shop with capacity of 10,000 tons per hour and a storage with capacity of 3,500 tons.

Aliyev also attended the opening of Kraun KO granary in the Shahverdili village of Imishli. The granary is equipped to the highest standards. The total cost of the complex is 7.3 million manats (about $9.3 million). The 50,000-ton granary has six silos with capacity of 8,300 tons each.

At the end of his trip, the Azerbaijani leader took part in the ceremony to commission a new Imishli city water stock complex.