He was a representative of the presidential candidate Heydar Aliyev in 2003 and Representative of the presidential candidate Ilham Aliyev at the pre-electoral period in 2008.
In December 2000, the former President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, signed a decree proclaiming August 2 professional holiday of filmmakers of Azerbaijan.
Aliyev's health began to fail in 1999, when he had a major heart bypass operation in the United States at the Cleveland Clinic.
Baghirov is often blamed for deterioration of the economy of Azerbaijan which was boosted when his predecessor Heydar Aliyev was in office.
In July 1993, Heydar Aliyev ousted the Supreme Court chief justice because of alleged political loyalties to the opposition.
He was considered a close long term ally of former President Heydar Aliyev.
Ilham Aliyev | Heydar Aliyev | Habil Aliyev | Heydar Aliyev International Airport | Rakhat Aliyev | Rafig Aliyev | Heydar Moslehi | Heydar | Ashraf Aliyev |
Photo book commemorating President Heydar Aliyev’s first official visit to the White House to meet with US President Bill Clinton.
In April, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell opened a week of OSCE peace talks, led by Minsk Group Co-Chairman Carey Cavanaugh between President Robert Kocharyan of Armenia and Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan.
The Xırdalan campus area was given to the university with the efforts of the late President Heydar Aliyev.
Zarifa Aliyeva — ophthalmologist, academician of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, professor; daughter of the People's Commissar of Health of Azerbaijan SSR, First Secretary of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the Communist Party, Aziz Aliyev, wife of the President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev and the mother of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
The Permanent Secretariat of TRACECA was established in March 2000 in Baku, and inaugurated on February 21, 2001 with the participation of the then President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, together with Javier Solana, Christopher Patten, Anna Lind.
In 2000, he received Azerbaijan's Medal of Progress awarded by the President of Azerbaijan H.E. Heydar Aliyev in occasion with 80th Anniversary of Azerbaijan State Oil Academy.
Mehriban Aliyeva, the first lady of Azerbaijan and president of Heydar Aliyev Foundation and also Serena Forni, head of the Rome City Mayor’s Office International Department, representatives of Azerbaijani Embassy in Italy, deputy minister of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan and others participated in the opening ceremony of the monument.