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31 December Celebrated as Day of Solidarity of the Azerbaijanis in the World

Politics Materials 31 December 2007 01:07 (UTC +04:00)
31 December Celebrated as Day of Solidarity of the Azerbaijanis in the World

Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend / Azerbaijanis made great contributions the world civilization living in the territory of Azerbaijan for thousands of years. Wars, revolutions, military conflicts, social-political processes in the world destructed Azerbaijan, some of the Azerbaijanis urged to leave their lands, deported, left their country with the purpose to find a work, and to get education and settled in different countries. Today Azerbaijanis live in every corner of the world.

Azerbaijanis lived in their motherland had not an opportunity to meet with their compatriots and to create the relations with them. Prohibitions of the Soviet Period created an obstacle between the relatives. At late 1980s when the soviet regime started to weaken people of Azerbaijan increased their attempts to re-establish the relations with their compatriots.

The history of the Day of the Solidarity of the Azerbaijanis of the whole world starts from late December 1989 when the borders in Nakhchivan destroyed (USSR-Iran borderline). Destroyed the frontier beams between Northern and Southern Azerbaijan ruined. The Conference of the Turkish-speaking countries held in Istanbul at that time decided to celebrate the day of the solidarity of the World Azerbaijanis.

In December 16, 1991 the chairman of the Supreme Assembly of Nakchivan Autonomous Republic Heydar Aliyev took into consideration the importance of solidarity of Azerbaijanis and declared the 31st of December the day of the Solidarity of all the Azerbaijanis of the World.

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