OFFICIAL NEWS
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJANHIS EXCELLENCY MR ILHAM ALIYEV
This is a sad time for the people of Azerbaijan. Everyone reading the history is aware of how hard your late father tried to and was profoundly credited with bringing peace, stability and sense to one of the most violate and strategically important regions of the world. Everyone truly admired his resolve and his preparedness, even through he was aware of the risks he was to embark. He rose through the rank to become an international icon. He was the life and soul of Azerbaijan in so many ways. He has secured his place in history.
As an active member of his society servant of his country, he will be sorely missed. In his life he showed great courage in the face of his troubles and met adversity with determination. President Aliyev will be remembered for a life that involved both color and sadness, but which never deterred his from fulfilling his public duties.
We are all praying that he will find eternal rest beyond the travails of human life and the frailty he knew in recent months.
In our time of grief and sorrow, a great number of Azeris desperately need comfort. As the political successor to your late father, the people will now look to you to maintain the political stability and the economic prosperity. They need reassurance and they need to know that there exists at their core a strength, which they can depend on. One day the country will admirer you for having harnessed your citizens’ sentiments, for gathering them close in your words and your actions. I hope other of my countrymen can now appreciate Azerbaijan for the wonderful nation of people she is.
May God bless you and our Azerbaijani brothers and sisters in the time ahead.
Sincerely
Dr. Mamoud Zarekeivan