December 24 is the birthday of President of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev. The head of state welcomes the new year as Muzaffar Supreme Commander-in-Chief. As we know, from September 27 to November 10 this year, our glorious army under the leadership of Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev carried out "Iron Fist" operation to liberate our occupied lands against enemy provocations. As a logical result of Ilham Aliyev's purposeful policy, as a result of 44 days of military operations, the victorious Azerbaijani army captured the cities of Jabrayil, Fizuli, Zangilan, Gubadli, Shusha, a special place in the history, culture and heart of the Azerbaijani people, the Minjivan, Agband, Bartaz liberated more than 300 settlements, including Hadrut settlement and many villages of Khojavend region, Sugovushan village of Tartar region, several villages of Khojaly and Lachin regions, as well as important strategic heights in the direction of Aghdara, Murovdagh and Zangilan. Courageous Azerbaijani soldiers and officers went step by step, breaking through the engineering and fortification systems built by Armenia for many years.
Our lands have been liberated at the cost of the blood and lives of our heroic soldiers and officers, our martyrs. Azerbaijan's military victories, especially the liberation of Shusha from enemy captivity, played a decisive role in the fate of the war, resulting in Armenia's recognition and capitulation of its defeat, forcing Armenia to return the Kalbajar, Agdam and Lachin regions to Azerbaijan. It should be noted that Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev was born on December 24, 1961 in Baku. In 1967-1977 he studied at the secondary school No. 6 in Baku. In 1977-1982 he studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MSIIR). After graduating from MGIMO, in 1982 he entered the graduate school of the same institute. In 1985, he defended his dissertation and received the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences, and in 1985-1990 he was a teacher at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. From 1991 to 1994, he worked in the field of private business and headed a number of production and commercial enterprises. From 1994 to August 2003, he was first vice-president and then first vice-president of the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He took an active part in the implementation of national leader Heydar Aliyev's oil strategy. In 1995 and 2000 he was elected a member of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
He has been the President of the National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan since 1997. In 1999, he was elected deputy chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party, in 2001, first deputy chairman, and in 2005 chairman of the party. In 2001-2003 he was the head of the delegation of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In January 2003, he was elected Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and a member of the PACE Bureau. After its approval by the Milli Majlis on August 4, 2003, he was appointed Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Due to this, the deputy's powers were terminated. Ilham Aliyev was elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on October 15, 2003. In the presidential election, more than 76 percent of voters voted for Ilham Aliyev. In 2004, he was awarded an honorary diploma and medal of the Honorary Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Ilham Aliyev, who won 88.73 percent of the vote in the October 15, 2008 elections, was re-elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In the elections held on October 9, 2013, Ilham Aliyev, who won 84.54 percent of the vote, was re-elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In the elections held on April 11, 2018, Ilham Aliyev was re-elected President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, gaining 86.02 percent of the vote. He speaks Azerbaijani, Russian, English, French and Turkish. He is married. He has three children and five grandchildren.
Gadin.Net congratulates President Ilham Aliyev on his birthday!