Yra tokia pasakų šalis Azerbaidžanas. Valdė ten toks – prezidentas Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev
ilgai ir laimingai. Paskui, po trečiosios ir tikrosios savo mirties , paliko postą savo sūnui (tiesa, su kai kuriais sunkumais).
Rytuose jau senokai prezidento institucija  panaši  į monarchiją – prezidento postas paveldimas. Bet buvo dar šiokia tokia kliūtis konstitucijoje – ne ilgiau dviejų kadencijų. Azerbaidžano liaudis vieningai taiso tą klaidą! Dar viena, puiki demokratijos apraiška pasaulyje - Prezidentas Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev Azerbaidžianui vadovauti galės iki mirties. Liaudis taip panoro. O prezidento sūnus Geidaras, paklaustas kuo norėtų būti užaugęs, pasakė, kad lakūnu. Kai paklausė kodėl ne prezidentu, protingai atsakė, kad tai per sunkus darbas.  Paaugs – susipras ir pasiaukos tėvynei, kaip ir jo senelis, bei tėvas.

O į Azerbaidžaną atvažiavę užsienio žurnalistai  buvo labai nustebinti, kad daugelio žmonių kalbėjimo maniera: šašlyką – mašlyką kepam, vaisius – maisius parduodam, naftą – maftą išgaunam…
Nutarė žurnalistai, viename interviu, to paklausti  Azerbaidžano Kultūros ministro:
- Sakykite, kodėl jūsų žmonės taip įdomiai kalba – ištaria žodį, o paskui jį greitai pakartoja, pakeitę žodžio pirmą raidę, reide „M”?
- Kaip čia jums paprasčiau paaiškinti… Na, tiesiog - kultūros – multūros trūksta!

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)  The issue of cooperation between Greece and Azerbaijan in the energy sector was the focus of discussions held on Tuesday February 17, between Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis and visiting Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev.  The aim of the Greek government was to expand the field of cooperation between the two countries, Karamanlis said. “Our country is the first European Union country to import natural gas from Azerbaijan,” the premier noted, pointing to the Interconnector Turkey – Greece – Italy pipeline carrying natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe via Turkey and Greece.  Greece has succeeded in becoming an energy hub for south-eastern Europe, a development that promotes the country’s interests and bilateral relations as well as the European strategy, Karamanlis said.  Later on Tuesday, at an event organised at the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Karamanlis announced that “Greece is ready to sign agreements for natural gas supplies directly from Azerbaijan,” but also open to long-term cooperation and increased transactions between the two countries in other sectors besides energy.  ERT Online: Energy Cooperation; Greek News Agenda: Greece Turkey Interconnector; Secretariat General of Information: About Brand Greece – Energy Policy of Greece

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, arrived in Greece yesterday – the first Azeri president to officially visit the country – with a delegation of officials from the Azeri state gas company. Aliyev expressed confidence that this trip would inaugurate a new era in bilateral relations, and emphasised the issue of energy security, noting that Azerbaijan had done much to give the rest of the world access to its considerable energy resources. President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias received his counterpart on Monday and held talks on ways to further develop bilateral relations between the two nations. Aliyev also met with Development Minister Costis Hatzidakis and talks focused on the supply to Greece of 1 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year from Azerbaijan, as well as the signing of a four-party state agreement on the Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy pipeline. Greek and Azeri officials also signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation on renewable energy sources. Greek News Agenda: Greece Turkey Interconnector; Secretariat General of Information: About Brand Greece – Energy Policy of Greece ; Centre for Renewable Energy Sources;

We’ve been following the antics and shenanigans of Rakhat Aliyev a bit here in this space. Unfortunately, for all the Kazakh citizens living in the country and abroad, he continues to be a thorn in our side. The Austrian government will not extradite him because they are afraid of him getting a fair trial? Ya allah! Do they worry about him “fairly” kidnapping his victims? Or participating in money laundering schemes? This is absurd. Tell the Austrian government to turn him over for justice.

Read for yourself, the post is below. Keep in mind the Washington Times has not been friendly to the Kazakh government in the past.

Aliyev: Fugitive from Justice

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/06/suspect-finds-refuge-in-austria/

http://www.russianduediligence.com

http://rada-llc.com

Bakude dogalgaz faciasi: 1 olu, 5 yaralinbsp;Nurettin ATMACA/ BAKU, (DHA)AZERBAYCANin baskenti Bakude bir apartmanin 5inci katinda dogalgaz sizmasi sonucu meydana gelen patlamada 1 kisi oldu, 5 kisi agir yaralandi.Nizami Ilcesinde saat 08.30 siralarinda meydana gelen patlamada binanin 3, 4 ve 5inci… Bakude dogalgaz faciasi: 1 olu, 5 yaralinbsp;Nurettin ATMACA/ BAKU, (DHA)AZERBAYCANin baskenti Bakude bir apartmanin 5inci katinda dogalgaz sizmasi sonucu meydana gelen patlamada 1 kisi oldu, 5 kisi agir yaralandi.Nizami Ilcesinde saat 08.30 siralarinda meydana gelen patlamada binanin 3, 4 ve 5inci katlari tamamen cokerken, yan binalarda da hasar oldu. Olaganustu Hal Bakanligi ekiplerinin kurtarma calismalarini surdurdugu binanin enkazi altinda 1 kisinin daha bulundugu saniliyor. Nizami Ilcesi Icra Hakimiyeti Baskani Mehbali Aliyev, enkazdan 20 yaslarinda bir kisinin cesedinin cikartildigini, 1i cocuk 5 kisinin yarali olarak hastaneye kaldirildigini soyledi. Aliyev, evleri yikilan ve zarar goren ailelerin gecici olarak baska binalara yerlestirilecegini bildirdi.

Sans surprise Ilham Aliyev a été réélu mercredi dernier à la présidence de la République d’Azerbaïdjan. Candidat sortant et fils du précédent président, il confirme ainsi la main mise de la dynastie Aliyev sur les sphères politiques azerbaïdjanaises. Cette élection, au-delà du caractère quasi inéluctable de son résultat, invite à se poser la question des perspectives d’évolution en termes politiques, mais aussi économiques et diplomatiques de l’Azerbaïdjan pour les cinq prochaines années.

Au travers de son site de campagne, Ilham Aliyev avait défini des priorités pour son mandat à venir, priorités au nombre de 7:

• Puissance et prospérité de l’Azerbaïdjan. Cet objectif double consiste en fait, d’une part au renforcement de la position azerbaïdjanaise sur la scène internationale en termes à la fois diplomatiques et économiques, probablement au travers d’une “diplomatie du pétrole“, déjà à l’oeuvre depuis plusieurs années. Il semble qu’à long terme l’objectif de Bakou soit de renforcer sa position stratégique énergétique et de s’assurer ainsi la bienveillance, sinon le soutien de la communauté internationale. Cette stratégie fonctionne d’ores et déjà aujourd’hui, notamment envers la Russie et l’Union Européenne, acteurs continentaux entre lesquels il existe une rivalité certaine, dont Bakou sait se servir en vue de maximiser la satisfaction de ses intérêts.
• L’intégrité territoriale. Il s’agit là d’une rhétorique récurrente et quasi systématique au sein de la sphère politique azerbaïdjanaise. En effet défendre le principe de l’intégrité territoriale c’est affirmer avant tout que l’on ne cédera pas aux revendications des indépendantistes qui contrôlent la région du Haut-Karabakh depuis près de 15 ans, mais c’est aussi une façon de prévenir les éventuelles veillités autonomistes, voire indépendantistes, des nationalités minoritaires présentes sur le territoire azerbaïdjanais.
• La stabilité politique. Si le mot ne “démocratie” ou de “démocratisation” ne figure pas parmi les 7 priorités définis par Ilham Aliyev pour son prochain mandat, celui de stabilité s’y substitue. Dans cette ex-république soviétique qui a été marquée, lors des premières années de son indépendance, par une situation politique chaotique, la “stabilité” est devenue une quasi-idéologie, soutenue par une population terrifiée par les spectres du chaos politique et de la division territoriale. Or il semble difficile de parvenir à une réelle démocratisation de la sphère politique tout en défendant la stabilité de celle-ci. En effet, le régime azerbaïdjanais actuel se caractérise par l’enchevêtrement des intérêts de l’oligarchie politique, d’une part, et de l’oligarchie économique, d’autre part, aucun de ces deux groupes n’ayant dès lors intérêt à prôner l’ouverture et la libéralisation de la sphère politique.
• Une économie puissante. L’économie azerbaïdjanaise est marquée par un taux d’inflation très élevé -les chiffres officiels se situent aux alentours de 20%- ce qui contribue à la paupérisation progressive des classes populaires de la société azerbaïdjanaise. Or cette paupérisation pourrait être à l’origine, en raison du mécontentement populaire, d’une certaine politisation de la société risquant fort d’aller à l’encontre du régime en place. Conscient de cela, le gouvernement azerbaïdjanais cherche aujourd’hui des solutions en vue d’épurer, de stabiliser et de diversifier son économie.
• Développement durable. Difficile de savoir si cette priorité est une simple “déclaration d’intention” ou relève d’une véritable volonté politique. Toujours est-il qu’aux vues des faits, qu’ils soient écologiques ou économiques, repenser le développement azerbaïdjanais semble en effet être une nécessité. L’extraction et le commerce du pétrole génére aujourd’hui la quasi-totalité de la croissance azerbaïdjanaise, et font que l’économie azerbaïdjanaise dépend pour l’essentiel des ressources naturelles épuisables. De plus en plus identifiée comme un cas d’école du “syndrome hollandais“, la République d’Azerbaïdjan doit rapidement repenser son développement économique à long terme si elle ne veut pas, une fois les réserves de pétrole taries, connaître une crise potentiellement dévastatrice.
• Une société juste. Aujourd’hui les inégalités économiques sont plus importantes que jamais en Azerbaïdjan. Le contraste le plus frappant est celui qui existe entre la capitale et les régions. Au sein de la capitale, et particulièrement dans les quartiers du centre-ville, la richesse des nouveaux entrepreneurs s’affichent à tous les coins de rue. Au contraire, dans les régions azerbaïdjanaises les infrastructures digne de ce nom font cruellement défaut. Tandis que de nombreux chantiers de construction, de rénovation ou d’embellissement sont entrepris à grands frais à Bakou, le piteux états des voies de communication, des réseaux électriques et des services publics provinciaux ne font pas l’objet d’un véritable intérêt et investissement de la part du gouvernement central. Les inégalités sociales et régionales diminueront-elles réellement dans les années à venir ?
• Une vie noble, digne d’intérêt… Aussi floue que dépourvue de contenu cette “priorité” soulève néanmoins quelques interrogations. Que signifie une “vie digne d’intérêt”? Quelles sont les critères de définition de cette notion subjective et qui décide de ces critères? S’il revient au pouvoir politique de fixer ces critères, cela peut s’avérer dangereux et renforcer les tendances totalitaires du régime actuel. En effet quand un gouvernement prétend définir ce qu’est le bonheur, le totalitarisme n’est généralement plus très loin.

A 15 jours du premier tour de l’élection présidentielle azerbaïdjanaise, le candidat sortant, Ilham Aliyev vient de lancer un site Internet dédié à la campagne présidentielle, faisant d’Internet le média par excellence de cette campagne électorale. Le design du site est digne des candidats à l’investiture suprême des Etats-Unis, ô combien compétents dans le domaine de la communication numérique. Le site présente en outre la particularité d’être trilingue (azéri, russe et anglais) permettant à un grand nombre d’internautes du monde entier, notamment de régions économiquement et politiquement importantes pour l’Azerbaïdjan, d’y accéder.Lancé par l’équipe électorale du Président de la République, ce site fournit une information quasi-exhaustive au sujet de l’activité du candidat: rapports de visites dans les régions, textes et vidéos des discours du Président ces dernières semaines, photographies de réceptions et de visites diverses et variées. Montrer l’activisme et le dynamisme de l’actuel Président est un enjeu à part entière des campagnes présidentielles modernes, que se soit à Paris ou à Bakou.

L’une des principales attractions du site devait être la section “Azerbaïdjan 2003-2008″, censée permettre aux internautes de réaliser un voyage virtuel et rétrospectif des cinq ans de la présidence d’Ilham Aliyev afin de “se familiariser avec les résultats obtenus lors de son mandat dans les domaines socioéconomiques et politiques”. Ironie du sort? A l’heure actuelle la section est vide et ne conduit à aucun “voyage virtuel”. Les cyniques diront qu’il s’agit là de l’illustration du peu de résultats du quinquennat d’Ilham Aliyev. Ce qui est loin d’être le cas, bien que ceux-ci ne soient pas toujours positifs si l’on prend comme échelle de référence les progrès de la démocratisation, de la transparence et de la responsabilisation des élites politiques…

Il est intéressant de noter que si l’on retrouve le terme de “démocratie” et de “démocratisation” au sein du programme du candidat – qui soit dit en passant est quelque peu fourre-tout – la “démocratisation” ne fait pas partie des priorités du candidat pour le mandat à venir.

Au-delà de la mise en service de ce site quelque peu démagogique, où chacun peut trouver des termes qui lui plaît, Internet semble bel et bien devenir un acteur majeur de l’élection. La Commission Electorale centrale (CEC) a ainsi annoncé que près de 10%, soit environ 500, des bureaux de vote seront équipés de webcams ce qui permettra de visionner le déroulement du vote et du dépouillement en direct. Véritable volonté de transparence ou simple disposition stratégique visant à s’assurer la bienveillance des organisations internationales et puissances occidentales? Difficile à dire. Toujours est-il que le résultat est le même, à condition bien sûr que les dites webcams fonctionnent effectivement le jour du scrutin et que la diffusion des images ne soit pas différée.

          Who ever thought that news from Azerbaijan would be of interest? Well grab your thinking caps, kids, and start thinking about not just Baku, but Dushanbe, Tashkent, Astana and Bishkek, because that’s where the action is about to be, if you ask me, which, once again, no one has. Sigh. Anyway, Baku got as friendly a visit as it is possible to get from our grumpy friend Dick Cheney the other day. One can only guess that it left the Azeris feeling a bit like toothpaste, about to be shot out of the tube. Dick is squeezing the tube in his typical gorilla grip while Russia’s Putin – oops! I meant Medvedev – is trying to roll the tube up methodically from the bottom by signing yet another deal with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to pipe gas to Russia; a pipeline which would make the Nabucco pipeline, favored not only by Baku, but by Dick and the rest of the Western Imperialists, obsolete. Given all this high-level attention after decades – nay, centuries – of benign neglect, I sure am glad I’m not Azeri President Ilham Aliyev.

          Even so, he has earned a fair share of eyebrow-raised respect from observers, and hair-raising ire from Cheney and Putin. First, Cheney is reported to have been as miffed as only a plutocrat can be by the fact that neither Aliyev nor Prime Minister Artur Rasizade came to the airport to greet him. Then, just to rub it in, the Azeris refused to sign a commitment to send energy to Europe via the Nabucco pipeline, saying, in effect; well… maybe. But then, that’s also what was told to Moscow, when the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (of course you’ve never heard of it, but don’t worry, you will hear more.) failed to approve Russia’s invasion of Georgia. At this Putin – I mean Medvedev – was aristocratically miffed, but perhaps not miffed enough to take his toys and go home. After all, there is gas to be piped, and like it or not, members of the SCO have every right and the leverage to say “maybe” to whomever they please.

          Now comes the test. Match the aforementioned capitol cities to these SCO member countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Throw in Russia and China (hence the Shanghai part of the SCO), and you have the Central Asian version of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Club Med. Both are Blocs in the Making for the new world order. Like Club Med’s stated goals (see Belles of the Ball here: http://jasjuice.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/belles-of-the-ball/) of general bonhomie and good deeds, the SCO’s goals are eliminating the “Three Evils” (do three evils an axis make? Just wondering.):  terrorism, separatism and extremism (thank goodness the separatist South Ossetia and Abkhazia don’t belong to the SCO, even though their Russian sponsor does…) are anemic at best.  More robust have been the unstated goals of resisting democratization and Westernization while generally fostering Russian foreign policy goals. China, of course, is just in it for the money. Their embrace of capitalism is nothing if not focused.

          So Azerbaijan is being squeezed by both Moscow and Washington, and in the meantime, with all eyes on the Caucasus, there’s that little matter of Nagorno Karabakh to be settled. Of course you remember that in 1918 Joseph Stalin was in charge of the Sovietization of Transcaucasia, including his home in Georgia, which resulted in a bunch of arbitrary statelets which mish-mashed enemies with friends and ignored ethnicities and language preferences all around. In 1991, as the ex-Soviet statelets were trying to sort themselves out and become States with a Capital S, well, pretty much all hell broke loose, and why not? Jo-Jo was no longer around to inflict “peace” on anybody; not in Yugoslavia, not in Central Asia, and certainly not in Nagorno Karabakh, home of the mixed Armenian and Azerbaijani nuts. Surrounded by Azerbaijan, NK is claimed by Armenia, except if you ask the Azeris who became refugees in the 1991 war, or (here it comes, get ready…) the Turks.

          This past week Turkish President Abdullah Gül went to a football match between Armenia and Turkey, much to the consternation of the majority of Turks. Armenia, you will certainly remember (not more history?! Surely our heads are all full! Quit it with the facts now!) suffered what they, Nancy Pelosi and the Armenian Diaspora call a genocide by the Turks (and lets not forget that the Diaspora got that way somehow, be it by “genocide” or not), and the Turks disagree, blaming all the woe and intrigue of Armenian dispersal and, well, being killed on a major scale on the ickiness of war in general; not “genocide”. And they’ve closed their land border with Armenia to protest the G-word, and sided decidedly with their “Azeri brothers” in the whole Nagorna Karabakh thing, not only because the Azeris are Turkic and Muslim, but because they are not Armenian. So that’s the stage upon which Gül entered to watch a football match, without the support of 60-70% of your average Turk.

          That majority, however, presumably doesn’t follow international diplomacy as closely as they do football, so what do they know? They’ve heard that Turkish trucks now idle at the Russian-controlled Georgian border for 20 hours at a stretch when it used to take 20 minutes to get through customs, but the average Turkish Mehmet hasn’t noticed that the delayed customs inspections are in fact a message from Moscow to Ankara: “We, as a matter of fact, are the ones who control the flow of energy through the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan pipeline, and don’t you forget it.”  And since Turkey gets a whole lot of its energy from Russia, its only choice is to make nice. The thing is, this NATO member now has to make nice to not only Russia, but Armenia, Azerbaijan, the EU (if it still hopes – beyond hope – to join) and the US, just to name a few of its “partners” in this and that. Its all such a muddle, who could be expected to understand it? Oh, and Turkey won the match 2-0.

BAKU (Asbarez)–As the US Charge d’Affairs in Armenia Joseph Pennington was praising the June 6 meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents as a sign of progress in peace talks, Azerbaijan on Thursday staged its first military parade in 16 years, and announced its intentions to build a military industrial complex that would support a second round war with neighboring Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

The military parade, which was a show of strength aimed at Armenia, comes amid rising tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and other top officials in his government continue to jeopardize the future of peace-talks with Armenia by threatening to launch an all out war in the Caucasus.

Warnings of an eminent military attack on the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and frequent cease-fire violations by Azeri armed forces have marred recent attempts by the OSCE Minsk Group to mediate a compromise solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict.

But a resumption of hostilities could disrupt oil supplies from Azerbaijan, which exports about 700,000 barrels of oil a day to world markets, most of it via a pipeline operated by a British Petroleum-led international consortium.

Troops, multiple rocket launch systems, armored personnel carriers, tanks and unmanned reconnaissance planes were paraded in front of the Soviet-built government headquarters in the capital Baku, watched over by President Aliyev.

Attack helicopters, bombers and fighter jets later flew in formation past the building on the shores of the Caspian Sea, in a parade that lasted over an hour.

Much of the equipment on show was Soviet-designed but there was also Western gear and troops were fitted out in NATO-style uniforms–part of a modernization of the armed forces funded with a ten-fold rise in defense spending since 2003. The United States has also been a benefactor for the Azeri military, providing military expertise and millions in US aid to combat drug trafficking, “counter-terrorism”, and Caspian Sea oil security.

But Aliyev signaled in his speech during the parade that his country intends to develop its own military industrial complex that will bolster the country’s military strength in order to wean it off its dependency on foreign military hardware.

“Most of our armaments and defense technologies are bought from foreign states, we want to produce our own military hardware,” he said. “Azerbaijan is building a military-industrial complex.”

Aliyev said at the parade Azerbaijan’s annual defense spending was now $2 billion. He said the increase was in line with an overall growth in state spending in Azerbaijan, which has one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

“The international community is worried by our policy in this area and places the emphasis on this,” said Aliyev, who succeeded his father as president in a 2003 election.

But Azerbaijan continues to live in a state of war and is trying to resolve the Karabakh issue,” he said. “We are continuing negotiations with Armenia, but they have been going on for a very long time and the people are tired of them. They cannot go on for ever.”

“The war is not over, only the first stage has ended and we are ready to liberate our lands at any moment,” he warned.

Though the international community, and the OSCE Minsk Group continue to assert that progress is being made in peace talks, the fragile ceasefire that has been in force since 1994 is on the verge of collapse, as Azerbaijan continues to beef up its military and provokes a war.

The two sides have never signed a peace deal to formally end the conflict, and their armies are locked in a tense stand-off, as Armenian and Karabakh border villages are frequently fired upon by Azeri forces.

The three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group from France, Russia and the US attended Thursday’s military parade and congratulated Aliyev on the occasion of the anniversary of the country’s Armed Forces. Prior to that, the French co-chair, Ambassador Bernard Fassier, who was in Baku on Wednesday said that “real peace requires wisdom, moral power and will.”

The three mediators are set to meet with Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and President Aliyev on Friday, after which they will fly out to Yerevan and meet with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and President Serzh Sarkisian. They will visit Stepanakert and Yerevan once more before they leave for Vienna for a June 30 expanded session that will focus on recent developments in peace talks.

Thus far, talks mediated by envoys from France, Russia and the United States have failed to produce a peace agreement.

Ötən ilin dekabrın 23-də İRƏLİ Ümumrespublika Gənclər Hərəkatı tərəfindən yeni və möhtəşəm bir aksiyaya start verildi. “İlhamla İRƏLİ” aksiyasının yeniliyi və fərqliliyi ondan ibarətdir ki, Aksiya yalnız paytaxtla məhdudlaşmır, eyni zamanda bütün bölgələri də əhatə edir. Bu müddət ərzində Azərbaycanımızın hər bir rayonunda, hər bir kəndində yaşayan vətəndaşlarımız televiziya, radio, qəzetlər vasitəsilə Aksiya barədə məlumatlandırıldı. Bunun nəticəsidir ki, başlanmasından keçən 4 ay ərzində Aksiyaya qoşulanların sayı 5000 nəfəri keçmişdir.

Aksiyaya paytaxt Bakıdan qoşulanlar üstünlük təşkil edir. Bu da təbiidir, çünki əhalinin, xüsusilə ictimai-siyasi aktiv hissəsinin böyük əksəriyyəti paytaxtda məskunlaşıb. Ancaq bir məqama xüsusi diqqət yetirmək lazımdır ki, bölgələrdən qoşulan insanların sayı da getdikcə artmaqdadır. Bunun səbəbləri isə aydındır. Ölkə Prezidenti İlham Əliyevin rəhbərliyi ilə hazırlanan və həyata keçirilən regionların sosial-iqtisadi inkişafı Dövlət Proqramı nəticəsində bölgələrimizdə aparılan yenidənqurma işləri, yeni istehsal müəssisələrinin açılması, insanların sosial rifah halının yaxşılaşdırılması üçün onların yeni iş yerləri ilə təmin edilməsi, məişət şəraitinin yüksəldilməsi istiqamətində mühüm işlər görülüb. Təbii olaraq öz həyatlarında yüksəlişi, rahatlığı hiss edən insanlar uğurla həyata keçirilən bu siyasi kursa inandıqlarını, İlham Əliyevi dəstəklədiklərini bəyan edir və Aksiyaya qoşulurlar.

Aksiyaya qoşulan 5000-dən artıq insanın əksəriyyətinin gənc və orta yaşlı olması heç də təsadüfi deyil. Məhz gənc yaşlarından ictimai-siyasi fəaliyyətlə məşğul olmasının nəticəsidir ki, İlham Əliyev gənclərə daim diqqət göstərir, “Gənclər bizim gələcəyimizdir” deyir, hər fürsətdə onların bilik və bacarıqlarının üzə çıxarılmasına, dövlətimizin gələcəyi naminə onların potensialından istifadə olunmasına çalışır. Təsadüfi deyil ki, İlham Əliyevin imzaladğı sərəncama əsasən Azərbaycan gənclərinin xaricdə təhsil almaq istəklərinə dövlət dəstəyi göstərilmiş  və müvafiq şərait yaradılmışdır. Bu gənclər isə, istək və arzularının reallaşdırılmasında, qabiliyyətlərinin üzə çıxarılmasında, Azərbaycanımızın gələcək inkişafına öz töhfələrini verə bilmələri üçün onlara dəstək olduğuna görə, İlham Əliyevi dəstəklədiklərini bəyan edir və Aksiyaya qoşulurlar.

Aksiyaya qoşulanlar arasında yaşlı nəslin nümayəndələrini də görmək mümkündür. İlham Əliyev hələ 2003-cü ildə Prezident seçkiləri ərəfəsində çıxışlarının birində demişdi ki, mən hər bir azərbaycanlının prezidenti olacağam. Bu sözlər əslində təsadüfi deyilmiş sözlər deyildi. Bütün Prezidentlik fəaliyyəti ərzində, imzaladığı sərəncam və fərmanlarla dediyi sözləri reallığa çevirən İlham Əliyev nəinki təkcə gənclərə diqqət göstərmiş, eyni zamanda orta və yaşlı nəslin nümayəndələrini də unutmamışdır. Bu il minimum əmək haqqının və minimum pensiyanın artırılması ilə bağlı İlham Əliyevin imzaladığı sərəncam məhz əhalinin bu təbəqəsinin sosial vəziyyətinin yaxşılaşdırılması, rifah halının yüksəldilməsinə xidmət edən faktlardan biridir.  

Yaxın həftələr və aylarda daha gərgin iş qrafiki ilə işləyəcək və minlərlə insanın bu Aksiyaya qoşulmasını təşkil edəcəyik.

Qarşıda isə bizi uzun və möhtəşəm bir yol gözləyir. Bu yolda təbii ki, daha mətin, daha əzmkar fəaliyyətin və davamlı uğurların şahidi olacaqsınız.

Siz də “İlhamla İRƏLİ” deyin, çünki biz birlikdə güclüyük.

If you are looking for the Kazakhstan Embassy in Tbilisi or Baku, please read this posting.  Most people will never have the pleasure of doing so, but we thought it necessary to help nevertheless – to save you a day and many taxi fares.  Headed east across Asia from Trabzon, Turkey, we thought it would be a good idea to get our visas for Kazakhstan in Tbilisi before attempting the unpredictable crossing of the Caspian.  There is an address for the Kazakh Embassy in Tbilisi in the Lonely Planet, on the Kazakhstan website and in local tourist literature.  The address is listed as 27 Orbeliani Street.  If you ask enough people in Tbilisi for Orbeliani Street, you will undoubtedly find it eventually, a block or two from the flower market.  The building listed as the Kazakh Embassy is condemned at best – I’ll post a picture when I figure out how.

The “27 Orbeliani Street” sign is shiny and new, but there is clearly no Kazakh Embassy there.  We asked the guard at the US Embassy down the road (reliably, the building with the highest fences in town) where the Kazakh Embassy might be.  He pointed us to a totally different neighborhood, up the hill from Chavchavadze Ave. at 23 Shatberashvili Street.

Unless you have a meeting with the ambassador though, don’t go to Shatberashvili Street because this is an official residence.  We rang the doorbell enough to get his family to open the door to us.  They were very nice to us inspite of ourselves and gave us the address for the Kazakh Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan where we were headed next.

After the overnight train ride from Tbilisi to Baku, where the cars are like frat houses but with cheaper vodka, we made our way to the Kazakh Embassy in Baku.  We found the building at the provided address on Hasan Aliyev Street in a similar state as the one we found on Orbeliani Street.  A sign was posted on the gate saying that the Embassy had been moved to another address- Hasan Aliyev Passage 15, 8.  After about half an hour driving around in a cab, we gave up, left our driver a 5 and proceeded on foot to find the right directions.  We got new directions and jumped in a new cab, who took us back to the old Embassy.  Our new driver proceeded to ask every person that passed where the Embassy was, and eventually we arrived at the Kazakh Embassy in Baku.  The staff was very friendly and had our visas ready for us the same day for $20.

Giving directions to the Hasan Aliyev Passage is difficult since there are no signs for the street.  It is off the Hasan Aliyev Street about 2 kilometers from the old Embassy away from the inner city of Baku.  Driving away from the inner city, it is on the left up a small hill.  If you pass a Camal Market, a few furniture stores and a bus stop for the 315 bus, you are getting warm.  The turn is across the street from a strange blue/purple colored building.  Once you get onto Hasan Aliyev Passage, follow the instructions below.

Drive into Hasan Aliyev Passage.  Drive down it and make a right at the t-junction.  As you go straight, you will pass a road on your left, do not turn on it – continue straight and up a slight rise as the road turns to the left.  Continue straight past two more streets on your left until you reach a t-junction.  The Jordanian Embassy should be in front of you.  Make a left here.  Drive straight past a street on your left.  Make the next left (there should be a small blue sign indicating the direction of the Kazakh Embassy) and drive straight until you get to the Kazakh Embassy – it should be on your left and has a small blue sign on it.  The streets are small alleys, some of which are not paved, so have faith and good luck.

Avropada Təhsil alan Azərbaycanlı Tələbələrin Forumuna (FASE) maliyyə yardımı haqqında Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin sərəncamı

Xarici ölkələrdə təhsil alan azərbaycanlı gənclərin təşkilatlanmasına köməklik göstərilməsini və onların diaspor fəaliyyətinin dəstəklənməsini təmin etmək məqsədi ilə qərara alıram:

1. Avropada Təhsil alan Azərbaycanlı Tələbələrin Forumuna (FASE) 2008-ci ildə nəzərdə tutulan təşkilati və ictimai tədbirlərin həyata keçirilməsi üçün Azərbaycan Respublikasının 2008-ci il dövlət büdcəsi hesabına maliyyə yardımının verilməsi məqsədəuyğun hesab edilsin.

2. Azərbaycan Respublikasının Nazirlər Kabineti bu Sərəncamdan irəli gələn məsələləri həll etsin.

İlham Əliyev,
Azərbaycan Respublikasının Prezidenti.
Bakı şəhəri, 10 aprel 2008-ci il.

Cənab Prezident növbəti sərəncamı ilə bir daha gənclərə olan etimadını təsdiqləmiş oldu. Sərəncamın tam mətni : 

Avropada Təhsil alan Azərbaycanlı Tələbələrin Forumuna (FASE) maliyyə yardımı haqqında Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin sərəncamı

Xarici ölkələrdə təhsil alan azərbaycanlı gənclərin təşkilatlanmasına köməklik göstərilməsini və onların diaspor fəaliyyətinin dəstəklənməsini təmin etmək məqsədi ilə qərara alıram:

1. Avropada Təhsil alan Azərbaycanlı Tələbələrin Forumuna (FASE) 2008-ci ildə nəzərdə tutulan təşkilati və ictimai tədbirlərin həyata keçirilməsi üçün Azərbaycan Respublikasının 2008-ci il dövlət büdcəsi hesabına maliyyə yardımının verilməsi məqsədəuyğun hesab edilsin.

2. Azərbaycan Respublikasının Nazirlər Kabineti bu Sərəncamdan irəli gələn məsələləri həll etsin.

İlham Əliyev,
Azərbaycan Respublikasının Prezidenti.
Bakı şəhəri, 10 aprel 2008-ci il.

Mənbə : President.az