Hikmet Farhad oglu Hajiyev ( az, Hikmət Fərhad oğlu Hacıyev) is an Azerbaijani public figure who serves as the Foreign Policy Advisor to the

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. He also serves as the Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the

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Early life and diplomatic career

Hajiyev was born in 1979 in

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(then known as

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) and graduated from Secondary School No. 24. He graduated from the Faculty of International Relations and International Law in Baku State University. He also holds a master's degree from NATO's Defense College, the

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, and Université libre de Bruxelles. Hajiyev has worked in the system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2000. In different years, he worked at Azerbaijani representative offices in NATO,

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, and

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. From 2014 to 2018, Hajiyev served as the head of the Press Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Azərbaycan XİN-in Mətbuat xidmətinin rəhbəri vəzifəsini Hikmət Hacıyev icra edəcək
/ref> On 9 July 2018, he was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Service in Diplomatic Service, and a year later, he was awarded the Order of Merit for Service to the Fatherland of the 2nd degree.

Foreign policy advisor

On 18 September 2018, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration. Later that November, he became the head of this department and on 29 November 2019, he became an official assistant to the President. When describing his role in the administration during the July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes, President Aliyev said that he is "speaking with my assistant Hikmet Hajiyev probably 10 times a day".

Statements

Hajiyev praised the effectiveness of the

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during the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hajiyev, Hikmet Living people Government ministers of Azerbaijan 1979 births People from Ganja, Azerbaijan Baku State University alumni