Heydar Aliyev (1923 – 2003)
Also spelled as Heidar Aliev, Geidar Aliev, Haydar Aliyev, Geydar Aliyev, was the president of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from June 1993 to October 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him.
Nakhchivan is an Autonomous Government included into the structure of the Azerbaijan Republic.
My heart is as full about Nakhchivan even if I speak much about it will not be sufficient.
I ask Congressmen why they have such close relations with Armenia, and they say that the Armenian Diaspora gives them a lot of money. Is that corruption or not?
There are many beauties in Nakhchivan. Its nature comes first.
Recently there are going the construction works in Nakhchivan-there are built schools, hospitals and houses for living.
Nakhchivan took me into its bosom. It protected, kept me and I also protected them, kept them.
It is not incidental that as it is now also ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago in Azerbaijan the specialists dealing with science, academicians, professors, university teachers or the people working at the Academy of Sciences, Scientific research institutes have started their life path from Nakhchivan.
The lessons that I learned at Nakhchivan School as well as the lessons of mother language and literature together with others constitute the main part of my language in nowadays.
Don’t let the way to the people bringing bad reputation to Nakhchivan.
I wish and recommend Nakhchivan’s young people to build Nakhchivan, to construct it and to raise it to the higher horizons as the current generation, as us.
High level of national spirit, national conscious and esteem to Azeries belong to the specific features of Nakhchivan.
Nakhchivanese earned specific for them reputation.
Nakhchivan has a great construction potential and in future Nakhchivan will use this potential more effectively.
Nakhchivan has been the place of many great thinkers, scientists and craftsmen.
From the ancient times Nakhchivan has been one of the prestigious places of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, as well as Nakhchivan for centuries has undergone the attacks of foreign invaders and during these wars and battles there died a lot of people. For many times Nakhchivan had been burnt and turned into ash but, the people again rose from under ash and moved Nakhchivan forward.
Nakhchivan lived and lives; Nakhchivan is not bent in blockade situation, it tolerated and it will live further on.
Nakhchivan has an ancient history of statehood. This is Azerbaijan’s statehood history.
And at last I have got one more indispensable remembrance. In October 1992 here for the first time we faced with the attempt for coup d’etat. Yes the armed groups of pop front went and occupied the buildings of Ministry of Internal Affairs and television of Autonomous Republic and tried turn out Nakhchivan authority. At that period people for the first time didn’t protect Pop front, but they protected us.
Now there are built schools in Nakhchivan. In most places of Azerbaijan the schools are not built yet, but they are built in Nakhchivan. Now there are built hospitals in the Autonomous Republic. That means in comparison with other places the people of Nakhchivan who live in difficult condition deal with construction works, they put their labor, showing enthusiasm and patriotism.
Nakhchivan is the Autonomous Republic. It is also the structural part of Azerbaijan. The international treaties established this status and nobody could change it.