Some 96,000 people live, work and study in Karabakh and East Zangezur, President Ilham Aliyev said during his speech at the 8th Congress of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP), APA reports.
The head of state said that 28 billion manats have been spent on the development of these regions to date: “The vast majority of these funds have been directed to infrastructure projects. A large part of them has been completed, and at the same time, former IDPs have already settled in 48 residential areas. In the coming years, the Great Return will proceed even faster.”