Azərbaycan Respublikası Elm və Təhsil Nazirliyi

Azərbaycan Memarlıq və İnşaat Universiteti nəzdində

İNŞAAT KOLLECİ

Sərbəst iş N-3

Tələbə: Yusubzadə Ayxan

İxtisas: Su təsərrüfatı qurğularının istismarı
Mövzu: Our Country, our President
Kurs: II
Fənn: İngilis dili
Qrup: 153A2
Müəllimə: Arzu Babayeva
 Our Country, our President
Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev born 24 December 1961 is an Azerbaijani
politician serving as the fourth president of Azerbaijan since 31 October 2003.
He is a former prime minister of Azerbaijan. The son and second child of
former Azerbaijani leader Heydar Aliyev, Aliyev became the president of
Azerbaijan in 2003 through a presidential election defined by irregularities
following his father's death. He was reelected for a second term in 2008 and was
allowed to run in elections indefinitely in 2013 and 2018 due to the 2009
constitutional referendum, which removed term limits for presidents.
Throughout his electoral campaign, Aliyev served as a member of the ruling
New Azerbaijan Party, which he has headed since 2005.

Ilham Aliyev is accepted by the international community as a prominent and

modern statesman. He holds fantastic respect and influence in Azerbaijan. The
political portrait of Ilham Aliyev is well-known in the world. The prominent
political and statesman Ilham Aliyev is the son of Heydar Aliyev, national
leader of Azerbaijan people and the genius statesman. He is a professional
politic. He has graduated from the Moscow State Institute of the International
Relations in 1982. In the same year he started scientific-pedagogical activity,
became the candidate and the pedagogue. He is candidate of historical sciences
since 1985.
Azerbaijan being oil-rich is viewed to have significantly strengthened the
stability of Aliyev's regime and enriched ruling elites in Azerbaijan, making it
possible for the country to host lavish international events, as well as engage in
extensive lobbying efforts.

Ilham Aliyev is the son of Heydar Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan from 1993 to
2003. His mother Zarifa Aliyeva was an Azerbaijani ophthalmologist. He also
has an older sister, Sevil Aliyeva. In 1977, Ilham Aliyev entered the Moscow
State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-MSIIR) and in 1982,
continued his education as a postgraduate. In 1985 he received a PhD degree in
history. From 1985 to 1990 Aliyev lectured at MSIIR. From 1991 to 1994, he
led a group of private industrial-commercial enterprises. In 1994–2003, he was
vice-president, and later the first vice-president of SOCAR, the state-owned
Azerbaijani oil and gas company. Since 1997, Aliyev is the president of the
National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan.

In 1999, Ilham Aliyev was elected as the deputy chair of the ruling party New
Azerbaijan Party and in 2001, he was elected to the post of first deputy chair at
the Second Congress of the Party. At the third Congress of the New Azerbaijan
Party held on 26 March 2005, President Aliyev and the first deputy of the Party
was unanimously elected to the post of chairman of the Party. The fourth and
fifth congresses of the party held in 2008 and 2013 unanimously supported his
nomination for the next presidential term.

In 1995, Aliyev was elected to the Parliament of Republic of Azerbaijan; later

he became president of the National Olympic Committee (still incumbent).

From 2001 to 2003, Aliyev was head of the Azerbaijani delegation to

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In August 2003,
while his father Heydar Aliyev was still formally president of Azerbaijan but
was ill and absent from public events, Ilham Aliyev was appointed as Prime
Minister.

Azerbaijani foreign relations under Aliyev included strengthened cooperation

with the European Union (EU), strong economic ties with Russia, cooperation
with NATO via the NATO–Azerbaijan Individual Partnership Action Plan, and
close relations with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Using
Azerbaijan's oil wealth, the Azerbaijani regime engages in extensive lobbying
efforts, using complex money-laundering and bribery schemes discovered
during the Azerbaijani laundromat scandal, such as Caviar diplomacy, to pay
off prominent European politicians to deflect and whitewash criticism of Aliyev
and promote a positive image of his regime and gain support for Azerbaijani
projects.During Aliyev's presidency, in 2019, Azerbaijan was elected chair of
the Turkic Council, as well as Non-Aligned Movement for a three-year
mandate.

Upon becoming president in 2003, Aliyev was positioned to enjoy a booming

economy fueled by the oil and gas sector; Azerbaijan had the world's fastest rate
of economic growth in the three-year period from 2005–2007. Azerbaijan's oil
riches strengthened the stability of Aliyev's regime and enriched ruling elites in
Azerbaijan. However, periods of low oil prices, as well as inflation, weakened
the Azerbaijani economy and slowed economic growth. Aliyev continued the
neopatrimonial system inherited from his father. Azerbaijan's oligarchic system
inhibited smaller businesses and blocked foreign investment outside the fossil
fuels sector. Persistent pledges by Aliyev and Azerbaijani elites to prioritize
economic diversification yielded few major results, as the country remained
largely depended on oil and gas. The International Monetary Fund has urged
Azerbaijan to diverse its economy.