Moscow may open Heydar Aliyev monument

Moscow needs a memorial to Heydar Aliyev, the first Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Foreign Ministers (1982-1987), his former staff said, Trend reports.

Vladimir Ukhov, former head of Heydar Aliyev’s Secretariat, said in Baku on Thursday that his memory in Moscow still lives.

Leyla Aliyeva, Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Fund, organized a visit of Aliyev’s former staff and the ninth department of the USSR KGB to Baku.

Ukhov noted that Aliyev had turned Azerbaijan into a state with an advanced economy, balanced socially and politically, with prospects and a multi-vector foreign policy.

Eduard Prokhorenko, Aliyev’s assistant, noted the efforts of their leader as a great politician. He characterized Aliyev as a kind, attentive, tactical person, who never reproached people without reason.

Yuri Solodukhin, a former assistant of Aliyev, said that it is hard to see the true value of Heydar Aliyev. He was a wise politician and managed to find constructive solutions in the most complicated situations. Heydar Aliyev made a great contribution to friendship and mutual understanding of the two peoples.