On August 20, the State Committee for Affairs of Refugees and IDPs held a commemoration event on the 25th anniversary of the occupation of Fuzuli and Jabrayil by Armenian armed forces. The Chairman of the State Committee, Deputy Chairmen, heads of departments and divisions, members of “Karabakh War Disabled, Veterans and Families of Martyrs” public union attended the event. Our martyrs who sacrificed lives for the freedom and territorial integrity of our lands were commemorated with a minute of silence. Rovshan Rzayev, the Chairman of the State Committee, said while talking about the causes and consequences of the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia that in the early years of restoration of the state independence, due to the deceleration in the army building, absence of a unified command and incompetence of the military-political administration our people suffered a lot. That is why Armenia implemented its own plans of occupation owing to military assistance from abroad. Armenians, who occupied Jabrayil and Fuzuli on August 23, 1993, committed massacres, robberies and destruction in these regions as well, like in every place occupied by them, and drove the local residents out of their native lands. Although the UN Security Council adopted a Resolution No. 874 demanding Armenia to unconditionally withdraw its troops from the occupied territories such as Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and other territories by suspending military operations, this resolution was not implemented either like the others and remained only on the paper. Horadiz settlement and 20 villages of Fuzuli region, Jojug Marjanli village of Jabrayil region were liberated from the occupation as a result of the successful military operation conducted in December 1993 by our military units re-mobilized shortly after the Great Leader Heydar Aliyev returned to the higher political power and started an independent state-building. In April 2016, the heroic soldiers and officers of our army carried out the order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev on preventing the Armenian military provocations on the contact line of the troops in Karabakh, made the occupation forces withdraw from Lalatapa high hill of Jabrayil region and surrounding areas. As a result, the civilians were able to return to the village Jojug Marjanli and lived in their own homeland, and the village was restored shortly afterwards, and the relocation of the inhabitants temporarily settled in different regions as internally displaced persons began. The heads of the organizations of “Karabakh War Disabled, Veterans and Families of Martyrs” public union in the occupied regions, intelligentsia from Fuzuli and Jabrayil regions and former warriors made speech at the event. At the end, the film titled “Jabrayil in the Armenian occupation” was shown.