An aide to Azerbaijan's president has visited Fuzuli, a city that was handed over to the Azeris from Armenians as part of a deal to end the bloody six-week-long conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Hikmet Haciyev, aide to President Ilkham Aliyev, visited the ruined remains of Fuzuli on Wednesday (November 18). The city had been under Armenian control for nearly three decades.

Populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians, and aided by the Armenian diaspora, Nagorno-Karabakh sits inside Azerbaijani territory and is connected to Armenia proper by a highway.

Nagorno-Karabakh is heavily militarized and its forces have been backed by Armenia, which has a security alliance with Russia. Azerbaijan, who has close ethnic and religious ties to Turkey, has long claimed it will retake the territory.

A war over the region ensued in 1994 between Azerbaijanis and Armenians, and the current conflict was the most severe it's been since then, despite back-and-forth battles throughout the years.

In 1915, around 1.5 million Armenians died during the Armenian Genocide, killings that were carried out by the Ottoman Empire.

The Azerbaijani city of Fuzuli, which was occupied by Armenia for 27 years, turned into an abandoned and destroyed city. There are almost no solid buildings in the city of Fuzuli, liberated on October 17 by the Azerbaijani army. The city, where 100 thousand Azerbaijanis once lived, now consists of bad roads and buildings, of which only stones remain.

Deputy President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Haciyev visited Fuzuli city and its countryside on Wednesday (November 18).

The positions that remained vacant with the withdrawal of the Armenian army were shown to the press. It was observed that there were many weapons and ammunition in their positions.