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Former Milli Mejlis speaker Murtuz Alasgarovâ€™s funerals begin

08 August 2012 11:46 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov â€“ APA. The funerals of former speaker of azerbaijani parliament, Milli Mejlis, Prof. Murtuz Alasgarov have started at the Shahriyar Culture Centre in Baku today. The traffic was restricted on Rashid Behbudov, Uzeyir Hajibeyov and Zarifa Aliyev streets due to the funeral process. Alasgarovâ€™s relatives, members of the parliament, government officials and public figures are attending the ceremony. The funerals will last until 17.00. Murtuz Alasgarov was buried at the 1st Alley of Honor.

Azerbaijani public figure, former speaker of Azerbaijani Parliament Murtuz Alasgarov died at the age of 84, in his country house in Mardakan on Tuesday after suffering from long-term illness.

Murtuz Alasgarov was born in Ganja on September 20, 1928. He graduated the law department of Azerbaijan State University. He has been worked as a head teacher in law department of Azerbaijan State University, docent and from 1957 in the post of chief of law department. He was a rector of Baku State University from 1993-1996. He became the head of the universityâ€™s constitutional law department in 1965.

He graduated from Azerbaijan Sate University. He is a Doctor of Science, professor and an honored Republicâ€™s legislator. He was awarded with â€œIndependenceâ€ order, â€œHonor certificate of President of Republic of Azerbaijanâ€, also â€œSodrujestvoâ€ order of CIS and â€œFreindshipâ€ order of Russian Federation.

Murtuz Alasgarov was elected to the parliament and led it in 1996-2005.

He was elected to the parliament again on November 6, 2005 from Garadag electoral district. He was member of the parliamentâ€™s permanent commission on legal policy and state-building, working groups on Azerbaijan-France, Azerbaijan-Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan-Turkey relations.