Ilham Aliyev: Five new tunnels to be built in Garabagh, East Zangazur

Five new tunnels will be built in Azerbaijan's liberated territories of Garabagh and East Zangazur, President Ilham Aliyev said during his speech at the official opening ceremony of WUF13, Report informs.

According to the Azerbaijani leader, 85,000 people currently work and live in Garabagh and East Zangazur.

"So now the Great Return Program is being implemented, and the master plans for cities and villages are being prepared. I can, of course, bring a lot of figures, but I will mention only two - the lengths of the tunnels which we are building now. In five years, 70 kilometers have already been built, with five more to be built; 435 bridges have been built out of 500. So this was done along with power stations, along with water supply, water storage facilities, houses, schools, hospitals, three international airports, railroads, and this was done only in five years," the president said.

Ilham Aliyev stressed that "this is how the owners of the land behave, unlike those who come only to demolish, to destroy, and to bring suffering."

"Today, more than 85,000 Azerbaijanis already live in the formerly occupied territories, they work, they live, they study, and their employment is also one of the important targets for our government.

So, prior to building the apartments and private houses for them, schools and hospitals, of course, we have to do demining, but at the same time we have to think about employment. So numerous industrial zones, which have already been created and will be created in those areas, definitely will support the rapid return of hundreds of thousands of people who were deprived of their fundamental right, the right to live on their own land," the Azerbaijani president added.