Azerbaijani president named person of the year in Canada

The Azerbaijani leader was honored for his “tremendous contribution to strengthening the global peace”, according to spokesman of the International Heydar Aliyev Center in Canada, Malik Abbas.

In a congratulatory statement to the President, the forum`s participants praised his “leadership in the multi-million Turkish world and your efforts to establish peace on the global scale and stabilize political situation in the Southern Caucasian region and beyond its borders”.

The statement also hailed the President`s contribution to preserving “beautiful traditions of Azerbaijan`s national leader Heydar Aliyev aimed at bringing the world cultures closer to one another…”