On August 22, Azerbaijan’s city of Lachin hosted an international conference titled “National Leader Heydar Aliyev is the author of the Constitution of independent Azerbaijan.”
The event was organized by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the occasion of the declaration of the year 2025 as the “Year of Constitution and Sovereignty.”
Kamran Aliyev, Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General, Masim Mammadov, Special Representative of the Azerbaijani President, Yuri Nikolayevich Zhdanov, Executive Secretary of the Coordination Council of Prosecutors General of the CIS Member States, Ahmet Gökay Aktaş, Prosecutor of the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Türkiye, Temur Tsindeliani, Prosecutor, International Cooperation Unit of the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, and others made remarks at the event.
Addressing the conference, Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev noted that the adoption of the first Constitution of the independent Republic of Azerbaijan is associated with the name of National Leader Heydar Aliyev, the architect of independent and modern Azerbaijan.
Kamran Aliyev reported that a Constitutional Commission consisting of 33 people was established under the chairmanship of National Leader Heydar Aliyev to prepare the draft Constitution of Azerbaijan. Following a nationwide discussion, the draft Constitution was adopted in a referendum held on November 12, 1995, by a majority of 91.9 percent of votes with the participation of 86 percent of voters, and entered into force on November 27, 1995.
“The adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan marks one of the most important milestones in the history of our independence, as well as one of the outstanding services of National Leader Heydar Aliyev in the history of the Azerbaijani statehood,” he emphasized.
The Prosecutor General noted that the Constitution of independent Azerbaijan, comprising 5 sections, 12 chapters, and 158 articles, places the Azerbaijani people as the sole source of state power and upholds the protection of human and civil rights and freedoms as the state’s supreme goal.
Touching upon the Zangezur Corridor, Kamran Aliyev said, “The opening of the Zangezur corridor is one of the issues of strategic importance against the backdrop of new realities.”
The Prosecutor General noted that this project, along with providing a land connection between the mainland Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan, would reshape the transport map of the region as a whole, making a great contribution to economic and political integration.
“As President Ilham Aliyev emphasized, the Zangezur corridor not only ensures the national interests of Azerbaijan, but also is of great importance in terms of international cooperation, trade relations and global security. Its opening will serve as another evidence of the practical strength of our sovereignty and Azerbaijan’s leading position in the region,” he underlined.
The year 2025 has officially been declared the “Year of Constitution and Sovereignty” in Azerbaijan by a Decree of President Ilham Aliyev.