There were no Armenian IDPs, because Azerbaijan did not occupy the territory of Armenia. They occupied our territory. That’s why we had so many refugees and IDPs who lived in difficult conditions during those years, said the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in an interview to Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya TV channel, APA reports.
"We introduced the program of resettlement even during the times of occupation, because the absolute majority of them had lived in tent camps for more than a decade. So we started to abolish tent camps as soon as I became president, and we finished that process in 2007. But still, tens of thousands of them lived in very poor conditions. So now the process of return, based on the program called the “Great Return” program, has started, and we have already settled more than 50,000 people in the liberated territories. And the process is continuing," - the President said.
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