On Wednesday, the National Academy of Sciences held a special election for president. Members of the Academy participated in the vote. The elections were uncontested, as the only candidate was 79 year-old Academician, Akif Alizadeh.
He was born on February 25, 1934 in Baku, and comes from a well-known Baku family. His grandfather, Agha Alizadeh, was Sheikh of Baku province prior to Soviet power.
Akif Alizadeh graduated from the Institute of Industry of Azerbaijan, and since 1957, he worked at the Institute of Geology of the Academy of Sciences. At 35, he defended his doctoral thesis.
From 1976 to present, he was the Director of the Institute of Geology. He has gained credibility among scientists and the public, and has received government awards.
The previous president of the Academy, Mahmud Kerimov, died suddenly two months ago of a heart attack.-05D-
Politics
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In a pointed discussion on the legacy of French diplomacy in the South Caucasus, an international conference convened in Baku on Friday to assess France’s role in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The event, organized by the Center for the Analysis of International Relations, highlighted long-standing grievances over what many in Azerbaijan see as Paris’s historical bias in favor of Armenia.
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The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Sabina Aliyeva, has sent an open letter to the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Tirana Hassan, expressing her disagreement with the organization’s latest report on the human rights situation in the country.
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U.S. President Donald Trump held first press conference in the White House briefing room Wednesday morning, hours after an Army helicopter collided with a passenger jet in Washington DC, claiming 67 lives.
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Activist Jlala Dzhavadov has been detained. The young man stopped responding to calls on Thursday from 4 p.m.
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