The Goranboy-Naftalan representative office of the West Azerbaijan Community was established

An event was held on "Establishment of Goranboy – Naftalan representative office of West Azerbaijan Community".

At the event, Vugar Novruzov, the head of the Naftalan City Executive Power, Maharram Guliyev, the Head of the Goranboy District Executive Power, MPs Anar Mammadov, Aziz Alakbarli, Ahliman Amiraslanov, Nagif Hamzayev, Ramil Hasan, a group that was forcibly deported from Western Azerbaijan and settled in Naftalan, Goranboy elders and intellectuals, public representatives participated.

The participants of the event first visited the monument of National Leader Heydar Aliyev erected in the center of the district and laid flowers in front of it. At the event, which was continued in the assembly hall of the Olympic Sports Complex, first, the dear memory of our National Leader and our martyrs was commemorated with a 1-minute silence.

Speaking at the event, the head of the City Executive Power emphasized that the first regional representative office of West Azerbaijanis will be opened in the Goranboy-Naftalan zone after the capital Baku.

The fact that our head of state presented the building belonging to the Azerbaijani community of Karabakh to West Azerbaijanis is also a symbolic sign of their return to West Azerbaijan.

At the event, Nuraddin Hasanov, an elder from the village of Garadagli, was elected the representative of the West Azerbaijan Community for Goranboy-Naftalan. After the event, there was a visit to the business room reserved for the Community's representation, and the favorable business conditions created there were familiarized.

It should be noted that the West Azerbaijan Community is the legal successor of the "Azerbaijan Refugee Society" Public Union, which has been operating since 1989. On August 3, 2022, the name of the Public Union was changed to "West Azerbaijan Community" and the new Charter of the Community was approved. In the community, structures such as Observation, Elders, Intellectuals, Women and Guardians councils, Board of Directors, Control-Inspection Commission, Youth Union, representative offices in foreign countries were created and elections were held. The organization has been dealing with the problems of West Azerbaijan refugees since 1989 and is the only public institution that collects and stores facts and documents about Azerbaijanis who became refugees in 1988-1991. In 1988-1991, more than 50,000 families expelled from Western Azerbaijan were estimated to have suffered damage to about 20,000 and these works are currently being continued. In those years, accurate statistics of refugees expelled from nearly 300 settlements in Western Azerbaijan were conducted for each family (name, surname, patronymic), and the list of 130 villages was completed. The organization continues to prepare an accurate list of all examples of our historical and cultural heritage in Western Azerbaijan.