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Top official: Heydar Aliyev and Ilham Aliyev are named national leaders, as they could change Azerbaijan’s appearance

Politics Materials 22 December 2011 20:52 (UTC +04:00)
The beginning of the 21st century is a crucial period in the Azerbaijani people’s life. The developments have brought two historical figures - Heydar Aliyev and President Ilham Aliyev - to the political arena, head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev said on Thursday addressing the presentation ceremony of a book entitled "President of Azerbaijan: his struggle for peace and look into the future," by famous author Graeme Wilson.
Top official: Heydar Aliyev and Ilham Aliyev are named national leaders, as they could change Azerbaijan’s appearance

Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 22 / Trend, M. Aliyev /

The beginning of the 21st century is a crucial period in the Azerbaijani people's life. The developments have brought two historical figures - Heydar Aliyev and President Ilham Aliyev - to the political arena, head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev said on Thursday addressing the presentation ceremony of a book entitled "President of Azerbaijan: his struggle for peace and look into the future," by famrous author Graeme Wilson.

The two historical figures have achieved the status of national leaders, overcoming hardship of a difficult period, directing national unity's power to meeting the challenges of state building and changing Azerbaijan's appearance, Mehdiyev said.

Sovereign Azerbaijan's unique heritage is Heydar Aliyev's statehood philosophy recognized in the world politics, Mehdiyev added.

"Continuing this heritage at the highest level by President Ilham Aliyev in the new century has become a symbol of progress and development," he stressed.
Creating works about eminent personalities require a great scientific selflessness, Mehdiyev said.

In this regard, this publication seriously differs from other books about President Ilham Aliyev's activities for its content, idea and labor on it.

The main feature of the book written by Graeme Wilson is that along with creating an image of national leader - the President, it impartially covers political process occurring in Azerbaijan and around it during Ilham Aliyev's presidency, Mehdiyev said.

"I think that this book will attract the attention of a wider audience, as well as become a visual aid, which will be widely used by researchers. Another significance of the work is that its issue coincided with the 20th anniversary of the restoration of Azerbaijan's state independence. Undoubtedly, this short historical period has left a great trace in the memory of the Azerbaijani people. The history itself will estimate the achievements of 20 years," Mehdiyev believes.

Establishment of states and their development experience great difficulties, he said.
"They experience the stages of their formation, development and decline. There is one important common feature in all these processes, and namely the connection between these processes and a fundamental factor - the state and the leader," Mehdiyev said.

He believes that namely the 21st century saw the terms "state" and "personality" united in one person - in a person of "national leader", and this century has presented famous leaders to the world history.

"We can decidedly state that the national state and national leader are a phenomenon of a new era. Azerbaijan's national leader Heydar Aliyev is one of such personalities," he added.

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