Azerbaijan's ruling party honors national leader

/By AzerNews/

By Sara Rajabova

Azerbaijan’s ruling New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) has hosted a conference titled “Azerbaijan in the modern world” to mark the 92nd anniversary of national leader Heydar Aliyev.

Ali Ahmadov, the deputy prime minister and deputy chairman and executive secretary of YAP spoke of the national leader Heydar Aliyev’s invaluable merits for Azerbaijani people.

Ahmadov said the notions Heydar Aliyev and the Azerbaijani state are inseparable, stressing that modern independent Azerbaijani is a masterpiece created by Heydar Aliyev.

The conference heard speeches by Bahar Muradova, deputy chair of the Azerbaijani parliament and head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the OSCE PA, as well as a member of YAP Board of Directors, Ali Hasanov, Azerbaijani President`s aide for public and political affairs, academician Kamal Abdulla state adviser on Multinational, Multicultural and Religious Affairs.

May 10 marks the 92nd anniversary of national leader Heydar Aliyev.

Heydar Alirzaoglu Aliyev was born on May 10, 1923 in Nakhchivan City - Azerbaijan. In 1939, after graduating from the Nakhchivan Pedagogical School he studied at the Architecture Department of the Azerbaijan Industry Institute (presently Azerbaijan State Oil Academy). The incipient war interrupted his education.

From 1941, Heydar Aliyev headed the department at the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Nakhchivan and in 1944 was sent to work at the state security bodies.

After his election at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan in July 1969 as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev became the head of the republic. In December 1982, Heydar Aliyev was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and appointed to the post of First Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR, and became one of the leaders of the USSR. For twenty years, Heydar Aliyev was the Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and for five years he stood as Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

He returned to Azerbaijan in July 1990. In 1991-1993, he held the post of Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 1992, at the constituent congress of the New Azerbaijan Party in Nakhchivan, Heydar Aliyev was elected Chairman of the Party.

In May-June 1993, when the country found itself on the verge of a precipice, with fears that a civil war would ravage the country, the people called on Heydar Aliyev to save the nation, which he did.

The then leaders of Azerbaijan were obliged to officially invite Heydar Aliyev to Baku. On June 15, 1993, Heydar Aliyev was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan, and on July 24 - on a resolution of the Milli Mejlis, he commenced to fulfill his role as president of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

On October 3, 1993, following a general election, Heydar Aliyev was elected president of Azerbaijan. On October 11, 1998, he was re-elected president of Azerbaijan. Heydar Aliyev, once again gave his consent to be nominated as a presidential candidate on October 15, 2003 presidential elections, only to relinquish after ill health forced him to slowdown.

On December 12 the national leader of the Azerbaijani people, President Heydar Aliyev passed away at a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, in the U.S.