A group of former internally displaced persons returned to the village of Vengli in Azerbaijan.

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Ten families of former internally displaced persons have returned to the village of Vengli in the Aghdere district and have been given keys to new apartments.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", on November 10, 2023, the Azerbaijani authorities announced that they plan to resettle 140,000 people in Karabakh by 2026. On December 27, 278 members of Azerbaijani families who fled the Karabakh conflict returned to the village of Khidirli in the Aghdam region.

Another group of former internally displaced persons (IDPs) returned to the village of Vengli in the Aghdere region, Oxu.az reported on December 27.

At this stage, 44 people from 10 families have returned to the village and were given keys to new apartments. Previously, they lived in various regions of Azerbaijan, primarily in dormitories, sanatoriums, and administrative buildings.

Thus, 532 people from 137 families have returned to the village of Vengli to date.

As a reminder, 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 analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" indicated that simply providing housing to internally displaced persons returning to their cities is not enough. Authorities must create jobs and build infrastructure, they emphasized.