POLITICS
AZERBAIJANI INTELLIGENTSIA CONDEMN DESTRUCTIVE ACTIVITY OF OPPOSITION
Their statement says: “We, 400 thousand members of the Azerbaijani Intelligentsia, state with enthusiasm that it has been 12 years since Azerbaijani nation has successfully solved such a difficult and at the same time glorious historical task of development of independent state, provide irreversibility of the state sovereignty and national freedom.
With the sense of a great satisfaction and dignity we note that during the presidential elections, on the eve of the Independence Day, on October 15, Azerbaijani nation showed a high socio-political activity and elected Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev as President of Azerbaijan by overwhelming majority of votes. We consider this fair, democratic and free choice of the vast majority of the Azerbaijani nation as another achievement of democracy and we are confident that Azerbaijan Republic will develop further in the new millennium under the guidance of Ilham Aliyev.
We along with the whole Azerbaijan people were angered with the acts of vandalism, brutal and criminal actions, committed October 15-16 in Baku by the “Musavat” party and other destructive forces united round him.
Harmful, destructive action of the leader of the “Musavat” Isa Gambar and his followers worries Azerbaijan people and we want their actions inconsistent with the Constitution to be stopped within the law and criminals be punished.
We, judicious intelligentsia of Azerbaijan, support Ilham Aliyev who scored an absolute victory in Presidential elections of October 15.