43 Azerbaijani families have been returned to the former Karabakh conflict zone.

Today, 169 members of Azerbaijani families who fled during the Karabakh conflict returned to the villages of Sos and Khorovlu. In total, more than 24,000 Azerbaijanis from 6,206 families have returned to the cities and villages of Karabakh.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on December 16, 94 members of Azerbaijani families returned to the village of Sos in the Khojavend region on December 16. The day before, on December 15, 79 former internally displaced persons were returned to the village of Khorovlu in the Jabrayil region.

Today, 99 members of 24 families were sent to the village of Sos in the Khojavend region, and 70 people from 19 families of former internally displaced persons were sent to the village of Khorovlu in the Jabrayil region, APA reports.

According to the authorities, taking into account the sending of these groups, the number of people who returned to Sos amounted to 360 (85 families), and those who returned to Khorovlu - 762 people (191 families).

In total, as of the morning of December 24, 6,206 families (24,729) have returned to 31 settlements in the former Karabakh conflict zone. people), the agency writes.

The IDPs returned today to Sos and Khorovlu previously lived in various regions of Azerbaijan, mainly in dormitories, sanatoriums, and administrative buildings, Report reports today.

"When we left our village, I was 32 years old. Now I'm over 60, and at this age, I'm finally returning to my native village. We lived apart from our homeland for years, and now we're returning home. We've long dreamed of this day, and now this dream has come true... This is the end of our long homesickness," the publication quotes Taibyat Guliyeva, who is returning to the village of Khorovlu today.

As a reminder, the Jabrayil district came under Azerbaijani control following the 44-day Karabakh war in 2020, along with six other districts (Agdam, Zangilan, Kubatly, Fizuli, Lachin, and Kelbajar). By January 18, 2025, 1,107 Azerbaijani family members had returned to the city of Jabrayil (Armenian name - Jrakan).

On September 19-20, 2023, Azerbaijan launched large-scale military operations and took control of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which began a mass exodus of the Armenian population. By October 7, 2023, 100,632 internally displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh had arrived in Armenia, and by September 2024, only 14 Armenians remained in the region. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report entitled "The Beginning and End of the Unrecognized Republic of Artsakh".

Azerbaijani IDPs complained about the difficulties of returning to Karabakh. In particular, they noted a shortage of jobs in Fizuli. People are looking for opportunities to return to their homelands, but property issues in the territories under Azerbaijani control have not yet been resolved, the IDPs noted.

Azerbaijani analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" pointed out that simply providing housing to IDPs returning to their cities is not enough. The authorities must create jobs and build infrastructure, they emphasized.