This year, the Azerbaijani government has 69 children and 12 women returned to the country from Iraq and Syria, that is, a total of 81 Azerbaijani citizens, Report informs, citing Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov telling a news conference today.
The foreign minister also added that due to the consequences of the pandemic, many citizens could not return to their homeland. In this regard, 89,000 applications were sent to Azerbaijani consulates abroad, of whom, tens of thousands were provided with assistance with documents.