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
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", ...
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 Presi ...
, and currently is headed by
Samir Nuriyev
Samir Rafig ogly Nuriyev ( az, Samir Rafiq oğlu Nuriyev) is an Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijani politician who is the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan, head of presidential administration (since 2019), was the State Committee for City Building ...
. 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
See also
*
Government of Azerbaijan
The Politics of Azerbaijan takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic, with the President of Azerbaijan as the head of state, and the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan as head of government. Executive power is exercised by the preside ...
*
Cabinet of Azerbaijan
*
National Assembly of Azerbaijan
The National Assembly ( az, Milli Məclis), also transliterated as Milli Mejlis, is the legislative branch of government in Azerbaijan. The unicameral National Assembly has 125 deputies: previously 100 members were elected for five-year terms ...
*
Fuad Alasgarov
Fuad Alasgarov ( Azerbaijani: ''Fuad Murtuz oğlu Ələsgərov''; May 14, 1959), also spelled as Fuad Aleskerov, is the Assistant to the President for Work with Law Enforcement Bodies and Military Issues, Head of Department and has the rank of fi ...
References
External links
Presidential apparatus on map of Baku, Azerbaijan
Government of Azerbaijan
Politics of Azerbaijan
1990 establishments in Azerbaijan
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