"All Azerbaijani cities and villages have been razed to the ground by Armenia during the occupation. Aghdam city is called "Hiroshima of Caucasus" by foreign experts. Armenia deliberately vandalized, desecrated, and pillaged our cultural and religious sites. More than 60 mosques were destroyed by Armenia. Mosques were turned into cowshed and pigsty," President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said at the 77th session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) under the theme "Building back better from crises through regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific," Report informs.
"Now there is a huge task before us - reconstruction of completely destroyed cities and villages, all cultural and religious heritage sites in the liberated territories. Smart city, smart village, and green energy concepts will be applied in the process of reconstruction. I invite companies from friendly countries to join the large-scale reconstruction in the liberated territories, the size of which is four times larger than Luxemburg," the head of state noted.