Sadyr Japarov and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev took part in a solemn ceremony of laying a time capsule at the foundation of a future secondary school in the locality of Khidirli today. The information was provided by the press service of the head of state.
The ceremony began with greetings from the heads of state akyns-improvisers in Kyrgyz and Azerbaijani languages.
The heads of state reviewed the school construction project, signed messages to future generations, which were placed in the time capsules. The presidents simultaneously lowered the capsules into the foundation of the future school, and then, by pressing special buttons, initiated the start of construction.
The school will be built as a gift from Kyrgyzstan to the fraternal people of Azerbaijan.
The two-story school is designed to have 22 classrooms. It is planned that the educational institution will house sports and assembly halls, a library, laboratories, as well as computer science and basic military training rooms. A sports ground, a gazebo, and a boiler room will be built on the school grounds.
The village of Khidirli was occupied by Armenian armed forces during the Karabakh war in 1993 and was under the control of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic until 2020. In 2020, these territories returned under the control of Azerbaijan.