Elmira Gafarova

Elmira Mikayil qizi Gafarova ( Azerbaijani Elmira Mikayıl qızı Qafarova ; born March 1, 1934 in Baku ; † August 1, 1993 ibid) was a politician of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic and foreign minister between 1983 and 1989 .

biography

Promotion to Foreign Minister

After attending secondary school she began in 1953 to study philology at the State University of Baku and graduated in 1958 with the graduation from. During her studies she began her political career as a deputy of the university committee of the youth organization Komsomol and in 1958 also became a member of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijani SSR (CPSR). After completing her postgraduate studies , she acquired a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) in Philology in 1961 .

In 1962 she was first chairman of the Central Organizing Committee before she was subsequently First Secretary of the Komsomol in the Azerbaijani SSR between 1966 and 1970. From 1970 to 1971 she was head of the Department of Culture in the Central Committee (ZK) of the CPSR and then until 1980 First Secretary of the Baku Party Committee.

In 1980 she was appointed Minister of Education and held this office until 1983. On December 1, 1983, she was appointed as the successor to long-time Foreign Minister Tahira Tahirova and held this post until her replacement by Huseynaga Sadigov on December 22, 1987. In her function as Foreign Minister, she also attended the meetings of the Soviet delegation as a member of the United Nations General Assembly in October 1984 on Racism and Discrimination . She was also elected deputy to the ASSR Supreme Soviet . In December 1987 she became Deputy Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers.

On June 22, 1989 Elmira Gafarova became chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the ASSR and was also a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In this role as President of Parliament , she played an essential role in restoring the historic name of the city of Kirowabad in Gəncə on December 30, 1989 and in declaring the Nouruz spring festival a public holiday on March 13, 1990.

Speaker of Parliament and the collapse of the Soviet Union

As President of the ASSR Supreme Soviet, she was also one of the first to call for a special session of parliament after the massacre of civilians in Baku on the night of January 19 to January 20, 1990, the so-called "Black January" ( Qara Yanvar ). The special meeting of 160 deputies, which she called on January 21, 1990, published a declaration condemning the bloodbath and at the same time appealed to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, all parliaments of the world and the United Nations to prevent military attacks against civilians in the Geneva Conventions and the Vienna Convention on the Succession of States should be included in international agreements .

As a result, the Prosecutor General initiated an investigation, which has not yet been completed, in accordance with Articles 94 (murder in aggravating circumstances), 149 (deliberate destruction or damage to property), 168 (abuse of power) and 225 (abuse of authority) of the Azerbaijani penal code in force at the time a.

Later she was instrumental in the law to restore sovereignty on October 18, 1991 and admission to the United Nations on March 2, 1992. After the declaration of independence, she was chairman of the National Council, the forerunner of today's National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan ( Milli Məclis ), until March 5, 1992 .

For her services she has been awarded numerous orders and medals and received, among other things, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor .

After her death, she was on the Honor Cemetery Alley of Honor buried in Baku.

Web links

• Biographies of Foreign Ministers on the website of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Biography (Azerbaijani)
• FEMALE PRESIDENTS OF UNDERSTATE ENTITIES