Barda, Azerbaijan News

The State Migration Service of Azerbaijan takes regular measures for strengthening the state's control over the migration processes and the prevention of illegal migration.

Houses will be built for IDPs in nine Azerbaijani regions in 2012. It is planned to resettle 11,000 IDP in new apartments, Vice Prime Minister, Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov told media on Thursday.

A ceremony to launch the Barda ferry, built for the Azerbaijan State Caspian Sea Shipping Company was held at the Croatian Uljanik shipyard on Thursday, May 10, the company's spokesman Vugar Sadikhov told Trend on Thursday.

This winter has been unusually harsh in Azerbaijan, and especially tough for refugees and farming communities living close to the front line with Armenian forces.