First Lady: Memory about great politician, creator of modern Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev to live in every Azerbaijani’s heart

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 7 / Trend A. Akhundov /

The 90th anniversary of ingenious personality Heydar Aliyev will be marked in Azerbaijan in a few days, Azerbaijani First Lady, president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, MP Mehriban Aliyeva said on May 7 at a meeting of the Azerbaijani Parliament dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Azerbaijani national leader Heydar Aliyev.

"The memory about great politician, creator of modern Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev will live in the heart of every Azerbaijani thanks to his Azerbaijani philosophy, heritage of statehood and gigantic work," Aliyeva said.

"Heydar Aliyev was a person with a wise, powerful intellect and unbreakable will," she said.

"As a member of his family, I would like to say that Heydar Aliyev was a noble, generous and humane person," she said. "He had ordinary and fair attitude towards ordinary people despite that he faced injustice, treachery and betrayal in different periods of his life. Even people, whom he promoted once, made groundless attacks on him exactly in this hall."

Azerbaijan's First Lady added that after Heydar Aliyev was elected the Azerbaijani President in 1993, he forgave most of these people, and thus once again confirmed his greatness by ability to forgive.

"The amnesty act being discussed today is an act of forgiveness," she said. "Passing such a law on the eve of Heydar Aliyev's 90th anniversary has a great symbolic value."

Mehriban Aliyeva believes that much can be changed for the better, thanks to forgiveness, good will and generosity in the world.

"The Amnesty Act will affect about 9,000 prisoners, more than 2,000 of them will be released," Aliyeva said.

"I am sure that the released individuals will realize their mistakes, meet with their families, find their place in society and will not make mistakes in the future," she said.

It should be recalled that the Azerbaijani Parliament has unanimously passed an amnesty act.

According to the act, women who had not committed crimes representing a greater threat to the society and those convicted of committing less heinous crimes and the perpetrators who committed the crimes under 18 years old.

Also included are handicaps of the first and second groups, men who have reached 60 years old, individuals having minor and disabled children of the first or second groups, individuals who participated in the battle to preserve the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, internally displaced persons as a result of the occupation of some Azerbaijani territories and individuals of other categories all fall under this category.