Heydar Aliyev is considered the founder of modern Azerbaijan and the country’s first president. Author: Getty Images
The peoples honor their leaders: unique people who have gone through modernity, sometimes through a long and difficult path, marked by the vicissitudes of history. Heydar Aliyev is an exceptional person for the fraternal Azerbaijani people. On May 10, 2023, he would have turned 100 years old.
Considered the founder of modern Azerbaijan and the country’s first president, Aliyev successfully coped with external and internal threats that in the early 1990s brought the nation to the brink of fragmentation and subsequent extinction.
His intelligence, fighting spirit in defense of his people and his vast leadership experience since the Soviet era made him a reliable bridge in the difficult years of transition between the Azerbaijan Socialist Republic and a country that welcomed the 21st century. consolidated independent state.
In the first period of his leadership, Heydar Aliyev achieved great success in the development of the country in the areas of
socio-economic, scientific-technical and cultural.
With a population of more than ten million inhabitants and located on the shores of the Caspian Sea, in the mountainous region of the Caucasus, between Western Asia and Europe
East Azerbaijan today is a country successfully building its future.
On March 28, 1992, diplomatic relations were officially established between the new Caucasian republic and Cuba. But friendship and
Mutual sympathies were cemented by decades of exchanges between the Soviet Union and the Caribbean archipelago.
Heydar Aliyev, being the supreme leader of the Soviet Republic and a member of the top leadership of the Communist Party of the USSR, and then the president of the new Azerbaijani state, always expressed his admiration for the commander-in-chief Fidel Castro and his “Island of Freedom”.
The centenary of his birth coincides with the important role that Azerbaijan plays today in the international arena as the president of the Non-Aligned Movement and an active member of the Group of 77 plus China, the chairmanship pro tempore Cuba holds.
The current President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, the son of the founding leader, declared 2023 the Year of Heydar Aliyev to perpetuate and perpetuate the example of an outstanding politician and statesman. The Cuban people and their diplomatic representatives in Baku respectfully join in the well-deserved tribute.
Source: Juventud Rebelde