Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend/ / The Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev, decreed to mark 9 July as the professional holiday of employees of the diplomatic service.
The temporary instruction on secretariat of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry was passed in 9 July
1919.
Ilham Aliyev took into account this historical fact and the role of the national diplomacy in establishment of the first Muslim Democratic Republic.