OFFICIAL NEWS
H.E. MR. ILHAM ALIYEVPRIME MINISTER REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN
Please accept my congratulations on the victory at Presidentiel elections. Your victory is Heydar Aliyevich’s victory, victory of people of Azerbaijan and celebration of democracy.
Dear Ilham, I remember you as a young man, when you family came to Pyatigorsk to rest. Further, life brought us together with Heydar Aliyevich in Moscow, when he was working as First Deputy Chairman of the Ministers’ Council of USSR. I know very well both politicians and statesmen have always high appraised professionalism, principality and high prestige of Heydar Aliyev.
When Heydar Aliyevich headed Azerbaijan again, majority in Russia breathed with a sense of relief: the most worthy and prestigious leader of Azerbaijan and of the whole post-Soviet space was leading a state, connected with our country by many-century good neighboring and partner relations.
For the years of presidency, Heydar Aliyevich could manage to create a safe ground for stability and gave a powerful impulse to social and economic development of the country. You, Ilham Heydarovich, are to lead a long and complicated process of Azerbaijan’s further integration into world economic and political system.
World community knows you as a pragmatic and rational politician, protesting the national interests of his state.
As chairman of Rectors’ Board of Stavropol province higher educational establishments, as a man having been working for tens of years in politics, as a man deeply respecting Heydar Aliyevich and people of Azerbaijan, I state on your all-sided support on your important way to strong powers, economy and state.
With deep respect and best wishes to the whole Azerbaijani people,
Kaznacheev V.
Chairman
Board of Rectors of Stavropol province
Rector of Pyatigorsk technological University, Professor
Pyatigorsk, October 20, 2003