The Office of the President of Azerbaijan ( az, Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin Administrasiyası) is the executive administration of

President of Azerbaijan The president of the Republic of Azerbaijan is the head of state of Azerbaijan. The Constitution states that the president is the embodiment of executive power, commander-in-chief, "representative of Azerbaijan in home and foreign policies", ...

. The office is in charge of fulfilling the constitutional responsibilities of the President. The headquarters of office is located on

Istiglaliyyat Street Istiglaliyyat Street ( az, Istiqlaliyyət küçəsi) is an arterial road in the central uptown part of Baku, Azerbaijan. It begins at Gulustan Palace, located on the southern hillside part of Baku, and continues north, then northeast, terminatin ...

of the capital city,

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...

History

The Office of the President of Azerbaijan was established on 18 May 1990. The administration is located in a twelve-story building with surface made of

marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or Dolomite (mineral), dolomite. Marble is typically not Foliation (geology), foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the ...

and

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

. The construction of the building, initiated by the First Secretary of Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR

Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev ( az, Һејдәр Әлирза оғлу Әлијев, italic=no, Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev, ; , ; 10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani politician who served as the third president of Aze ...

and supervised by project manager Fuad Orujov and architects Tahir Allahverdiyev and Madat Khalafov, was started in 1978 and completed in 1986. It was then occupied by the Central Committee of the

Communist Party of Azerbaijan The Azerbaijan Communist Party ( az, Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası; russian: Коммунистическая партия Азербайджана) was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of the ...

. After 18 May 1990, the building was assigned to the

and his administration and it was renamed the Presidential Palace in 2003.

Structure

The Office of the Head of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan was headed by

Ramiz Mehdiyev Ramiz Anvar oghlu Mehdiyev ( az, Ramiz Ənvər oğlu Mehdiyev; russian: Рамиз Энвер оглы Meхтиев, Ramiz Enver ogly Mekhtiev; born April 17, 1938) is an Azerbaijani politician and academician who served as the Head of the Presid ...

, and currently is headed by Samir Nuriyev. The structure of the office is as follows: * Assistants to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan * Secretariat of the First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan *Assistant to the President - Head of the Department of State Control Affairs * Assistant to the President - Head of the Department for Territorial and Organizational Issues *Assistant to the President - Head of the Department of Military Affairs * Assistant to the President - Head of the Department for Work with Law Enforcement Bodies * Assistant to the President - Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs *Assistant to the President - Head of the Department of Economic Issues and Innovative Development Policy * Assistant to the President - Head of the Department of Economic Policy and Industrial Issues * Press Secretary of the President * Protocol Service of the President * Department of Civil Service and Human Resources Issues * Department of Youth Policy and Sport Issues * Department of Humanitarian Policy, Diaspora, Multiculturalism and Religious Issues * Department of Legal Expertise *Department of Legislation and Legal Policy *Department for Work and Communication with NGOs *Department for Relations with Political Parties and Legislative Authority * Department for Work with Documents * Department for Work with Citizens' Inquiries * Administrative Department

References

External links

Presidential apparatus on map of Baku, Azerbaijan
Government of Azerbaijan Politics of Azerbaijan 1990 establishments in Azerbaijan {{Azerbaijan-poli-stub

History

Structure

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