OFFICIAL NEWS
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN HIS EXCELLENCYMR. ILHAM ALIYEV
Highly esteemed Mr. President,
In these sorrowful days for Your state, accept, please, my heartfelt condolence on the untimely passing of Your father – the Great son of the Azerbaijani people, prominent international political figure Heydar Aliyev.
Good recollections on this wise, authoritative in the world man will forever remain in the hearts of each citizen of Your Republic and all of them who know him personally.
Anatoliy Rakhansky,
Member of PACE, head of the Deputy Group of the Supreme Rada
of Ukraine on inter-parliamentarian relations with Azerbaijan,
People’s deputy of Ukraine
14 December 2003