Farewell ceremony with Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh ends -PHOTOSESSION

Farewell ceremony with Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh ends -<font color=red>PHOTOSESSION</font>
# 14 February 2009 12:38 (UTC +04:00)
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, government and state officials, cultural and literature figures, intellectuals and representatives of the public community attended the ceremony, APA correspondent reports from the event. The President expressed condolence to the poet’s family. Minister of Education Misir Mardanov, rector of the Baku State University Abel Maharramov, Chairman of Parliament’s Standing Commission for Cultural Issues Nizami Jafarov and People’s Poet Zalimkhan Yagub delivered speeches at the ceremony. They spoke about the life and activity of the people’s poet and his values as a professor, poet, intellectual and public figure.

The farewell ceremony lasted from 13.00 to 15.00.
Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh was buried in the Alley of Honour.
The poet died at 84 after the siege of illness.





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