Today is the Day of Solidarity of World Azerbaijanis, APA reports.
The foundation of the Day of Solidarity of World Azerbaijanis was laid in late December 1989, when, under the organization of the Azerbaijan Popular Front, the USSR–Iran border fences were dismantled in Nakhchivan.
On December 16, 1991, taking into account the importance of creating unity among Azerbaijanis worldwide, the Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Heydar Aliyev, declared December 31 as the Day of Solidarity of World Azerbaijanis. From that point on, December 31 began to be observed as the Day of Solidarity of World Azerbaijanis.
The holiday was officially celebrated at the state level for the first time in 1992 by order of Azerbaijani President Abulfaz Elchibey.
Since then, December 31 has been celebrated as the Day of Solidarity of World Azerbaijanis. This holiday plays an important role in establishing ties among Azerbaijanis living in different countries and in fostering unity and solidarity among them. Celebrating the Day of Solidarity of World Azerbaijanis has become a necessity and a moral need for Azerbaijanis around the world.
December 31—the Day of Solidarity of World Azerbaijanis—is celebrated as a holiday by Azerbaijanis in many countries. In the final period of the collapse of the USSR, marches by Azerbaijanis living on both sides of the Araz River toward the border and the dismantling of barbed wire, despite severe pressure from two totalitarian states, as well as weeks-long calls for unity day and night along the banks of the Araz River, once again vividly demonstrated on a global scale that Azerbaijanis are one nation.
The Day of Solidarity is a symbolic emblem of this aspiration for unity.
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