BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 18. One of the main tasks
for our government now is the reconstruction of Garabagh and East
Zangezur, an area which had been under Armenian occupation for 30
years, and which suffered total destruction and devastation,
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said during his speech at the opening ceremony of the 13th session of
the World Urban Forum (WUF13), Trend reports.
The President noted: “International observers and visitors
compared, for instance, Aghdam with Hiroshima. They called it the
Hiroshima of the Caucasus because this city just did not exist. It
was totally leveled to the ground, and unlike Hiroshima, it was
done not in one day as a result of an atomic bomb, but it was done
during 30 years of occupation, when the buildings—historical
buildings, public buildings, and houses—were just dismantled and
completely destroyed.”
