Azerbaijan celebrates National Salvation Day

MOSCOW (AA) - Azerbaijan on Thursday celebrated National Salvation Day.

Azerbaijan celebrates the annual day to mark the events when their national leader, Haydar Aliyev, got elected as chairman of the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan in 1993 and succeeded in preventing a civil war in the country.

In 1997, Azerbaijani lawmakers put forward an initiative to designate June 15 Azerbaijan's National Salvation Day and the parliament approved the proposal.

In 2020, thanks to efforts by Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan was restored and the National Salvation Day started being celebrated in territories previously occupied by Armenia.

*Writing by Elena Teslova