POLITICS
FAMOUS KAZAKH WRITER AND SOCIO-POLITICAL FIGURE OLJAS SULEYMENOV: “SHOULD IN LATE 1980s AND EARLY 1990s, HEYDAR ALIYEV BE AT THE LEADERSHIP, AZERBAIJAN WOULD NOT SUFFER SUCH ORDEALS”
I am certain that should in late 1980s and early 1990s, Heydar Aliyev continue be at the leadership in Azerbaijan, he would prevent both the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and Sumgait events. In January 1990, General Varennikov’s tanks would not attack Baku… And perhaps, Karabakh would not lost…
…I am sure that in June 1993, should not the people call Heydar Aliyev to power, the country would undergo greater human and territorial loss…
Heydar Aliyev stopped the war. In the past ten years, he did a lot to normalize the relations with the neighboring countries, the East and West…
There was a confidence in peaceful returning of the lost. He proved that in the present and future world the political ability might be more efficient than the military ability.
Paris, May 1993