TERRY ADAMS, FORMER PRESIDENT OF AZERBAIJAN INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONAL COMPANY - AIOC:
“DUE TO LEADERSHIP OF HEYDAR ALIYEV, AZERBAIJAN HAS TURNED WITH THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POINTS OF VIEW IN MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT AMONG THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS”

“Mr. President, with your leadership Azerbaijan became now very stable country. Azerbaijan has already found the international and geopolitical status. All this was achieved due to your leadership. All this has taken place due to the oil strategy developed by You for this country. You have attracted many large, strong companies of the world to Azerbaijan, and they have put investments to Azerbaijan and revived economy of your country.

Mr. President, due to your leadership Azerbaijan has turned to a model of development from the political and economic points of view among republics of the former USSR. When will be written historical books about the second period of independence of Azerbaijan, your name will be entered in golden scripts in their pages”.

From statement at the ceremony of delivery of "Glory" Awards on March 31, 1999