A group of assistants of members of the Congress of United States got acquainted with the living conditions of internally displaced persons.

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Mətbuat xidmətinin məlumatı 20 August, 2011

A group of assistants of members of the Congress of United States which included the delegation met with internally displaced persons on August 17. At first, Mission has been to Darnagul student campus hostel No1 of the Baku Management and Technology College. Deputy chief of State Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Deals of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Garay Farhadov informed the guests that Azerbaijan nation has been exposed the genocide and encroached to historical land by armenians four times in a century. For the last time, 250 thousand ethnic azerbaijanians have been drived out from historical land in Armenia and seeked refuge in Azerbaijan, nearly 700 thousand of our compatriots have settled temporarily at 1600 points in 67 regions of the country driving out from Nagorno Garabakh and 7 regions occupied Armenian Armed Forces. At the result of Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Garabakh Conflict we lost 20 thousand compatriots, 50 thousand people were invalid, more than 100 thousand people got different body injuries. Azerbaijan had lost in amount of 60 billion dollar. Internally displaced persons have settled in Baku in 1043 objects including 262 such hostels compactly. “State Program on improvement of living conditions and employment rehabilitation of refugees and internally displaced persons”, confirmed by Decree of the 1st of July, 2004 issued by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Supplements made to that State Program by his Decree of the 31st of October, 2007, Decree of the 21st February, 2011, “About the additional measures for improvement of housing and living conditions of the internally displaced families” are implemented successfully. 67 new settlements have been built for the families of refugees and internally displaced persons in separate towns and districts of the country, 20 thousand families, notably, our 100 thousand compatriots have been moved to new houses, 130 educational, about 50 health, tens of communication and cultural centers have been constructed and handled over for use, appropriate infrastructure has been created. American Guests have come from here to the quarter built in the 7th mcr. of the Binagadi district, territory of the 2nd House-building complex. Garay Farhadov informed that, 369 families settled temporarily in 6 building each of consisting of 9 floors. All types of infrastructure re built in the area. These buildings will stay in state fund after inhabitants of quarter return to their native land. About 2 thousand families live under existing condition in Baku. Living conditions problems of most of the internally displaced persons will be solved till 2015.