Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova took part in the jubilee event held on 19 November to ce^lebrate the 30^th anniversary of inception of the New Azerbaijan Party.

The event participants began by commemorating the creator of the NAP Heydar Aliyev; fresh flowers were put at the foot of the National Leader’s monument standing in the foyer of the Milli Majlis Houses.

Besides, they acquainted themselves with the Victory Corner, too, situated in the foyer and put flowers in front of it in memoriam of the heroic sons of the Motherland who had laid their lives down for her.

The jubilee event proper began then, to mark the anniversary of the NAP linked to the glorious name of the Great Leader Heydar Aliyev.

Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova opened the gathering by congratulating its participants on the remarkable date. The National Anthem of the Republic of Azerbaijan was sounded and then there was a minute of silence in honour of both Heydar Aliyev and those fallen in the Patriotic War.

In her speech that followed, Sahiba Gafarova accentuated the exceptional role of the NAP, the best organised and most powerful political force of the country, in Azerbaijan’s history of independence and statehood. The thirtieth anniversary of the party is celebrated very solemnly, which is completely logical given the party’s incomparable services in rescuing our state from chaos, anarchy, recession and demise as much as in putting the state on the path of constant stability and progress.

Formed and introduced to political life under the guidance of the National Leader Heydar Aliyev, the NAP has proven in the period past that it is a guarantor of national unity, civil solidarity, stability and evolution.

The inception of the NAP was one of the utmost contributions by the Great Leader to the achievements of the Azerbaijani nation whilst the party’s coming onto the political stage revived an Azerbaijani person’s self-confidence. Our nation began to look into their future with confidence and embraced wholeheartedly a political entity that led them forth and have been able to unite the people in the name of grand goals. The nation took the ideology of Azerbaijanism declared by this political power to their heart. They understood and appreciated that only political path leading them away from hardship and calamity. A few months after the emergence of the New Azerbaijan Party, the Great Leader returned to supreme power at the behest of the nation. The salvatory mission begun with that retaking of the helm of the state predetermined the future fate of the nation and of the state alike, Sahiba Gafarova emphasised.

Our nation twice gained their most precious asset, national independence, twice during the 20^th century. And while our independence had proven impossible to preserve at the start of the 20^th century, it was restored and saved by nobody else but Heydar Aliyev at the curtain fall of the centennial.

The victorious Commander-in-Chief and Chairman of the NAP Mr Ilham Aliyev now continues successfully along the path of Azerbaijan’s strategic development. The ruling team made of the representatives of the NAP are capable of overcoming the most complex tasks likely to be set them, as they have demonstrated through their tremendous practical achievements, Mrs Gafarova continued. The New Azerbaijan Party has covered a path of glory in these thirty years past; it has remained monolithic, has grown stronger still and has been winning at every election conducted in the country.

The expired part of our national history has had a number of remarkable events with the greatest of them all having been the wondrous victory gained in the 44 days’ Patriotic War that restored both historical justice and the territorial wholeness of our state. Mrs Gafarova said adamantly that she was certain: the Head of State, the victorious Commander-in-Chief and Chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party Mr Ilham Aliyev will lead Azerbaijan to further historical achievements and further strategic heights in the coming years. The victor party of the victor nation, the NAP will facilitate the fulfilment of the national agenda and will also ensure the country’s steady and dynamic development.

The multi-faceted activities of First Vice President and First Deputy Chair of the New Azerbaijan Party, esteemed Mrs Mehriban Aliyeva – the activities that rest on the national interest and universal values – are met with great acclamation in the country as well as in the international arena today, Madam Chair mentioned with profound satisfaction. The deeds of Mehriban Aliyeva have greatly helped the party secure a yet broader public support, amongst their other noteworthy aspects, according to Mrs Gafarova.

The NAP is undeniably an institute standing at the forefront of the whole political system, a truly national party contributing most immediately to the evolution of political culture and the streamlining of the country’s whole political system. At the same time, our party is also the strongest and best organised a political power in the South Caucasus thanks to the resources at its command, its public and social influence and the degree of efficiency of its working mechanisms.

Continuing, Sahiba Gafarova said that the NAP afforded the youth extensive opportunities and was very keen on instilling young people with national mentality and patriotic spirit. The party is doing an important kind of work to ensure a comprehensive development of the new generation and rallies to it the talented youth desirous of being helpful to the society and the state.

The outstanding part played by the NAP in solidifying the international image of Azerbaijan was brought up as well. According to Mrs Gafarova, the NAP is furthering bilateral and multilateral relations with the leading political parties of many European and Asian countries and is represented successfully in international organisations in that plane particularly.

The Milli Majlis, too, has had and is having services of its own in the achievements of our republic. The traditions of parliamentarism founded by the Great Leader Heydar Aliyev continue today. Our legislative assembly has drawn to its ranks the worthiest deputies of the nation. As ever, free, transparent and democratic elections were conducted in 2020 where members of the New Azerbaijan Party won most of the mandates of members of the Milli Majlis of the sixth convention.

According to Mrs Gafarova, parliament must be a true conductor of national interests and aspirations as the Head of State Ilham Aliyev said. A parliamentarian ought to live with the cares and concerns of the people who elected him or her. Now, the Parliament of Azerbaijan builds its work along those lines and is optimising them at that.

We have important tasks facing us at the modern stage of national development history. We are full of resolve to make our state yet more powerful, to lead the citizens of Azerbaijan to prosperity, to preserve stability and progress and to move on to further successes. All those underlie the entire work of the New Azerbaijan Party.

The leader of the Milli Majlis concluded her speech by cordial congratulations to all on the occasion of the 30^th anniversary of the New Azerbaijan Party and wishing the party linked to the celebrated name of the Great Leader Heydar Aliyev and now well on its way of continued progress under the far-sighted guidance of the esteemed President Ilham Aliyev further remarkable achievements.

A video made by the Milli Majlis and telling the path of glory and successes covered by the NAP since its birth was shown then.

Head of the Social Legislation Department of the Milli Majlis Staff and chairman of the Territorial Party Organisation Adil Valiyev described the NAP, now celebrating its 30^th anniversary, as a mighty creation of the National Leader Heydar Aliyev that had fulfilled a historic mission for our nation. Created in a then difficult political situation and having covered a glittering path, the party is a conductor of its nation’s wishes and desires as much as it is their expression in itself, in the opinion of Mr Valiyev.

First Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis and head of the parliamentary Law Policy and State Building Committee Ali Huseynli, in turn, remarked that the thirtieth jubilee of the NAP came at a time of notable historical events. Last year, the restored national independence of ours had turned thirty years and, this year, we have celebrated the 2^nd anniversary of the victory in the Patriotic War. In November, then, the State Flag Day and the Constitution Day were marked in a country enjoying territorial integrity. The policy of the Great Leader, President Ilham Aliyev that continues it firmly and the New Azerbaijan Party that carries it into life constitute the chief factor conditioning all those historical highlights, according to Mr Huseynli.

First Vice Speaker cast a glance over the action-and-event-packed way covered by the NAP; he touched upon its involvement in the struggle for national sovereignty and highlit its achievements. Emerged under the chairmanship of the Great Leader Heydar Aliyev, the NAP is a worthy leading force in our nation’s struggle for their independence. Heydar Aliyev’s words ‘The NAP is a party of yesterday, today and tomorrow’ are true and to the point at all times, Mrs Huseynli pointed out.

The creation history of the New Azerbaijan Party and its glorious path were then covered by the chairs of parliamentary committees Eldar Ibrahimov, Samad Seyidov and Hijran Huseynova, the MPs Hikmat Mammadov and Mikhail Zabelin as well as chairman of the NAP Sabayil District Organisation Mukhtar Naghiyev. They talked about the self-sacrifice of the Great Leader Heydar Aliyev in the making and strengthening of the party; they also mentioned the courage with which he was eliminating all obstacles on the way. The party has always held high the values of multiculturalism, taken care of youth people and provided for enhancement of women’s social and political roles. Besides, the speakers shared their memories of the National Leader.

Mukhtar Naghiyev gave honorary certificates to the particularly distinguished party youth activists Samad Sultanov, Lala Chelebizade, Ilaha Mehraliyeva, Elman Aslanov and Seymur Ashrafli.

Besides, the Milli Majlis administrative employees Abbas Yusifov, Kamran Hasanzade, Orkhan Abdullayev, Ali Huseynli and Sanam Jafarova were admitted to the ranks of the NAP. It was Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova who handed the parliamentary employees-come-party-members their membership badges.

Lala Chelebizade and Elman Aslanov addressed the party’s care of and attention to young people as they spoke on behalf of the youth.

The participants of the meeting included, amongst other officials, MP Nurlan Hasanov, Head of the Milli Majlis Staff Farid Hajiyev, Head of Affairs Firudin Hajiyev, Deputy Chairman of the parliament’s Territorial Party Organisation Teymur Taghiyev, department heads from the parliamentary Staff.

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