Tackling Azerbaijan’s IDP Burden

Europe Briefing (International Crisis Group) N° 6, 15 p.           Türkçe  усский

27 February 2012, Baku/Tbilisi/Istanbul/Brussels

As negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia to resolve the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh stall, the Azerbaijan government has improved living conditions for the internally displaced (IDPs), though return to the occupied territories remains by far the preferred solution.

Tackling Azerbaijan’s IDP Burden, the latest International Crisis Group briefing, examines the impact of the failure to reach a peace settlement on the nearly 600,000 Azerbaijani IDPs forcibly evicted from homes in Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts. With no quick solution in sight, the government, aided by increasing oil wealth since 2004, has intensified efforts to deal with IDP needs. Poverty rates have decreased dramatically, and the state is building better housing and improving health care.

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