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Azerbaijan marks 50th anniversary of national leader Heydar Aliyev’s coming to power

14 July 2019 13:34 (UTC +04:00)

Today Azerbaijan marks 50th anniversary of the national leader of the Azerbaijani people Heydar Aliyev came to power in Azerbaijan, APA reports.

Heydar Aliyev was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijanat the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan held on July 14, 1969 and lead Azerbaijan USSR until 1982.

During the period of Heydar Aliyev's leadership (1969-1982), great achievements in the socio-social sphere have been achieved as a result of the strengthening of managerialism and increasing demand for cadres. In December 1982, Heydar Aliyev elected member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and was appointed first deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and became one of the leaders of the USSR.

Heydar Aliyev resigned from his office in October 1987, protesting against the political line of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev.

The national leader demanded that the organizers and executors of the crime committed against the Azerbaijani people be executed on January 20, 1990, following the bloody tragedy committed by the Soviet troops in Baku on January 21, 1990, at the Moscow Representative Office in Moscow. He left the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in July 1991 as a sign of protest against the hypocritical policy of the USSR on the sharp conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Returning to Azerbaijan in July 1990, Heydar Aliyev lived in Baku, then in Nakhchivan, and he was elected a member of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan in that year.

He was Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in 1991-1993, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Azerbaijan and actively participated in the sessions of the Supreme Soviet. Heydar Aliyev was elected chairman of the party in constituent congress held in Nakhchivan city of New Azerbaijan Party in 1992. In May-June 1993, the uprising riotes by Suret Huseynov in Ganja threatened the country's civil war and the loss of independence. Taking into account the demands of the people, the Elchibey government officially invited him to Baku.

On June 15, Heydar Aliyev was elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan, and on June 24, he began to exercise the powers of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan by the decision of the Milli Majlis. On October 3, 1993, as a result of nationwide voting, Heydar Aliyev was elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The attempts of a coup d'état in October 1994 and March 1995, which were a major threat to the existence of the Azerbaijani statehood, were prevented, the state independence was preserved and attempts to come to power through the armed forces were abandoned. The Contract of the Century was signed in Baku on September 20, 1994 with the world's 11 largest oil companies on the joint development of "Azeri", "Chirag" deposits in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea and the distribution of extracted oil ". a good basis for development has been created.

Heydar Aliyev was elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan by collecting 76.1 percent of the votes in the October 11, 1998 elections. Heydar Aliyev, who agreed to nominate his candidacy for the 2003 presidential elections, refused to take part in the elections due to health problems and withdrew his candidacy in favor of Ilham Aliyev.

National leader Heydar Aliyev died at Cleveland Clinic (USA), which was treated on December 12, 2003, and was buried in the 1st Honor Alley on December 15 in Baku.

Heydar Aliyev's second return to power - June 15 is celebrated as the National Salvation Day of the Azerbaijani people.