Ayaz Mutallibov to be buried in 1st Alley of Honors

Former President of Azerbaijan Ayaz Mutallibov will be buried in the 1st Alley of Honors, the relatives of the deceased told Report.

Mutallibov died yesterday at the age of 84 after a long illness.

Mutallibov was born in Baku in 1938. After graduating from the Azerbaijan State Institute of Petroleum and Chemistry in 1962, Mutallibov joined the Azerbaijani Communist Party in 1963.

From 1977 to 1990, he held various senior positions in the country's management structures. He was appointed head of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in 1989. Mutallibov won the election held on September 8, 1991, becoming the first president of independent Azerbaijan after the USSR collapse.

On February 25, 1992, the Azerbaijani opposition insisted on convening an extraordinary session of the Supreme Council of the republic, at which it put forward a demand for the resignation of the president, blaming him for the aggravation of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. For two days, the lawmakers were held hostage by the armed opposition. To avoid inevitable bloodshed, Ayaz Mutalibov was forced to resign. He left his post on March 6, 1992.

Mutallibov then moved to Russia, where he lived until 2012, and after that returned to his home country and announced that he would abstain from politics.
The former president had been hospitalized and was undergoing medical treatment.