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ONLY TWO AZERBAIJANI REGIONS LOCATED NEARBY THE ZONE OCCUPIED BY ARMENIA NEED RECONSTRUCTION OF ABOUT 2,000 HOUSES
Azerbaijan Business Center
Sept 8 2008
Azerbaijan
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. As the international organizations did not
fulfill their responsibilities on restoring the housing in the regions
located the zone occupied by Armenia, there is an urgent necessity
in construction appeared.
The Governemntal sources informed that Agstafa, Gazagh, Terter and
Fizuli regions of Azerbaijan need reconstruction.
"At present it is necessary to reconstruct (factually to rebuild)
not less than 600 houses in Terter region and at least 1,100 houses
in Fizuli region," the source informed. The donor could be only the
Azerbaijani budget which earlier solved the problem concerning the
closing of tent towns for refugees and IDPs.
"Now it's time to solve the problems of people who are neither
refugees nor IDPs, but keep living on the frontier line heroically,"
the source said.
On October 31, president Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan endorsed the
additions to the State Programme on Refugees' Living Conditions &
Employment.
The additional measures will cover period of 2007-11.
The Programme, a continuation of a similar document for 2004-08,
differs with a larger volume of works and coverage of areas. It
will also be realized in three directions - improvement of living
conditions of refugees and IDPs, their employment and co-operation
with international, organizations. According to preliminary estimate,
the programme will cost around AZN 1 bn ($1.25 bn).
The new programme includes construction of 15,000 new houses with
floor space of 8,000 sq.m., new schools and hospitals.
Within the framework of the fresh programme in 2008 it is planned
to define future economic structure of country's occupied regions of
drafting a programme "Great Return". All international organizations
and governmental agencies have made their remarks on the primary
version of the programme and at the moment we are preparing its
final draft.
Over the last four years it was spent AZN 700 million on improvement
of socio-economic conditions of refugees and IDPs. AZN 370 million
of this amount were finances from State Budget and AZN 330 million
from State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan.
The endorsed programme stipulates works aimed at improving
infrastructure in settlements for refugees and IDPs (in particular
in the Fizuli, Agdam and Bilasuvar regions), improvement of TV
and radio broadcasting, stabilization of power supply and full
gasification of Fizuli and Agdam regions, and disbursal of grace
loans for IDPs, running business and farms, creation of small-size
processing enterprises, weaving mills and other crafts, stock-breeding
development, seed-, grain-, vegetable and wine-growing in IDPs'
residence sites, drawing of donor countries, international and
domestic humanitarian organizations and their offices on different
humanitarian projects ad projects promoting to creation of new jobs
for IDPs, creation of production areas and meeting refugee needs.
Azerbaijan Business Center
Sept 8 2008
Azerbaijan
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. As the international organizations did not
fulfill their responsibilities on restoring the housing in the regions
located the zone occupied by Armenia, there is an urgent necessity
in construction appeared.
The Governemntal sources informed that Agstafa, Gazagh, Terter and
Fizuli regions of Azerbaijan need reconstruction.
"At present it is necessary to reconstruct (factually to rebuild)
not less than 600 houses in Terter region and at least 1,100 houses
in Fizuli region," the source informed. The donor could be only the
Azerbaijani budget which earlier solved the problem concerning the
closing of tent towns for refugees and IDPs.
"Now it's time to solve the problems of people who are neither
refugees nor IDPs, but keep living on the frontier line heroically,"
the source said.
On October 31, president Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan endorsed the
additions to the State Programme on Refugees' Living Conditions &
Employment.
The additional measures will cover period of 2007-11.
The Programme, a continuation of a similar document for 2004-08,
differs with a larger volume of works and coverage of areas. It
will also be realized in three directions - improvement of living
conditions of refugees and IDPs, their employment and co-operation
with international, organizations. According to preliminary estimate,
the programme will cost around AZN 1 bn ($1.25 bn).
The new programme includes construction of 15,000 new houses with
floor space of 8,000 sq.m., new schools and hospitals.
Within the framework of the fresh programme in 2008 it is planned
to define future economic structure of country's occupied regions of
drafting a programme "Great Return". All international organizations
and governmental agencies have made their remarks on the primary
version of the programme and at the moment we are preparing its
final draft.
Over the last four years it was spent AZN 700 million on improvement
of socio-economic conditions of refugees and IDPs. AZN 370 million
of this amount were finances from State Budget and AZN 330 million
from State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan.
The endorsed programme stipulates works aimed at improving
infrastructure in settlements for refugees and IDPs (in particular
in the Fizuli, Agdam and Bilasuvar regions), improvement of TV
and radio broadcasting, stabilization of power supply and full
gasification of Fizuli and Agdam regions, and disbursal of grace
loans for IDPs, running business and farms, creation of small-size
processing enterprises, weaving mills and other crafts, stock-breeding
development, seed-, grain-, vegetable and wine-growing in IDPs'
residence sites, drawing of donor countries, international and
domestic humanitarian organizations and their offices on different
humanitarian projects ad projects promoting to creation of new jobs
for IDPs, creation of production areas and meeting refugee needs.