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The Office of Azerbaijan President is the executive administration of President of Azerbaijan
President of Azerbaijan
The country of Azerbaijan is a presidential republic, with the President of Azerbaijan as the head of state, and the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan as head of government...

. The office is in charge of realization of constitutional responsibilities of the President. The headquarter of office is located on Istiglaliyyat Street
Istiglaliyyat Street
Istiglaliyyat Street is an arterial road in central uptown part of Baku, Azerbaijan. It begins at Gulustan Palace located on the southern hillside part of Baku continues north, then northeast, terminating at intersection of Aziz Aliyev and Mammad Amin Rasulzade streets at the edge of the...

 of capital city Baku
Baku
Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...

.

History

The Office of Azerbaijan President was established with declaration of independence of Azerbaijan on October 18, 1991. The administration is located in a twelve story building with surface made of marble
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...

 and granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

. The construction of the building initiated by the First Secretary of Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR Heydar Aliyev
Heydar Aliyev
Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev , also spelled as Heidar Aliev, Geidar Aliev, Haydar Aliyev, Geydar Aliyev was the third President of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from June 1993 to October 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him.From 1969 till 1982, Aliyev was also the leader of Soviet...

 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. After restoration of independence of Azerbaijan in 1991, the building was assigned to the President of Azerbaijan
President of Azerbaijan
The country of Azerbaijan is a presidential republic, with the President of Azerbaijan as the head of state, and the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan as head of government...

 and his administration and its name was renamed to Presidential Palace in 2005.

Structure

The Office of Azerbaijan President is currently headed by Ramiz Mehdiyev
Ramiz Mehdiyev
Ramiz Mehdiyev Anvar oglu is an academician and Azerbaijani politician who serves as the Head of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Republic.-Early life:Mehdiyev was born on April 17, 1938 in Baku, Azerbaijan...

. The structure of office is as follows:
  • Service of the State Councilor for economic policy issues
  • Secretariat of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
  • Service of the Press Secretary of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
  • Service of Head of the Administrative Department of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
  • The Protocol Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
  • Department on work with law-enforcement bodies of Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
  • Department of legislation and legal expertise
  • Department of humanitarian policy issues
  • Department of foreign relations (Head of department - Novruz Mammadov
    Novruz Mammadov
    Novruz Mammadov is an Azerbaijani professor of French.He was born in Nakhchivan, the Republic of Azerbaijan, and received a PhD in Philology in 1991 from the Azerbaijani Pedagogical Foreign Languages Institute , where he then became an instructor.Interpreter and senior interpreter in Algeria ,...

    )
  • Department of work with regional administration and local self-governance bodies
  • Department of public-political issues (Head of department - Ali Hasanov)
  • Department of political analysis and information provision
  • Department of state control
  • Department of economic policy issues
  • Department for agrarian policy issues
  • Department of human resources
  • Department of work with documents and citizens' applications
  • Department of publications and translations

See also

  • Government of Azerbaijan
  • Cabinet of Azerbaijan
    Cabinet of Azerbaijan
    The Cabinet of Azerbaijan is the chief executive body of the Republic of Azerbaijan.-The Executive Power:The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan is the head of state....

  • National Assembly of Azerbaijan
    National Assembly of Azerbaijan
    The National Assembly , also transliterated as Milli Majlis is the legislative branch of government in Azerbaijan. The unicameral National Assembly has 125 deputies: previously 100 members were elected for five-year terms in single-seat constituencies and 25 were members elected by proportional...


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