Hajibala Ibrahim oglu Abutalybov (Template:Lang-az, born May 13, 1944) is an Azerbaijani politician. He was Mayor of Baku between 2001 and 2018 and deputy prime minister of Azerbaijan from 2018 to October 2019.
Hajibala Abutalibov | |
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.jpg) The Mayor of Düsseldorf, Dirk Elbers (right) and Hajibala Abutalybov (left) | |
| 5th Mayor of Baku | |
| In office January 30, 2001 – April 21, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Muhammed Abbasov |
| Succeeded by | Eldar Azizov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 13, 1944 Krasnovodsk, Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union (now Turkmenistan) |
| Political party | New Azerbaijan Party |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Azerbaijan State University Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute |
Abutalybov was born in Kyzyl-Su, Turkmenistan. He graduated from Azerbaijan State University with a degree in Physics in 1965. In 1969, he was enrolled in post graduate program at Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 1976, he received his PhD and defended his doctoral desertation in 1987.[1]
Abutalybov served as the head of the laboratory at Physics Department of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in 1995. Same year, he was appointed the Head of the Executive Power of Surakhani district of Baku which he held until 1999.[2] In 2000, he was appointed Deputy Premier of Azerbaijan Republic.
In 2005, Abutalybov told a visiting German delegation from Bavaria concerning Armenians and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: “Our goal is the complete elimination of Armenians. You, Nazis, already eliminated the Jews in the 1930s and 40s, right? You should be able to understand us.”[3][4][5]
Abutalybov served as Mayor of Baku for 17 years, between January 30, 2001 and 2018.[6] He is married and has two sons.
References
- ^ The Executive Power of Baku City. Head of BCEP Archived August 4, 2012, at WebCite
- ^ "AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT NAMES NEW BAKU MAYOR". Vol. 5, no. 22. RFE/RL. February 1, 2001. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ The Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts and Closed Borders. U.S. Government Printing Office, June 18, 2008, p. 50
- ^ Thousands died for nothing? Armenia VS Azerbaijan. Le Journal International, May 28, 2020, retrieved July 25, 2020
- ^ T.J. Petrowski: Marxism and the National Question: Nagorno-Karabakh in Context, 2019
- ^ AssA-Irada Agency periodicals Archived August 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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