Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has dissolved the Government in connection with his re-elections to the post of head of state.
Presidential Elections were held in Azerbaijan on 15 October. Ilham Aliyev, a candidate of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, took the victory gaining the overwhelming majority of votes.
The composition of the dissolved Government of Azerbaijan:
Prime minister – Artur Rasizade,
First deputy premier – Yagub Eyyubov,
Deputy premier – Elchin Efendiyev,
Deputy premier, head of the State Committee on refugees and internally displaced people – Ali Hasanov,
Deputy premier – Abid Sharifov,
Minister of Foreign Affairs – Elmar Mammadyraov,
Minister of Interior Affairs – Ramil Usubov,
Minister of National Security – Eldar Mahmudov,
Defense Minister – Safar Abiyev,
Justice Minister – Fikret Mammadov,
Minister of defense industry – Yaver Jamalov,
Finance minister – Samir Sharifov,
Taxes Minister – Fazil Mammadov,
Minister of economic development – Heydar Babayev,
Minister of emergency situations – Kamaladdin Heydarov,
Minister of labor and social security – Fizuli Alakbarov,
Minister of agriculture – Ismet Abbasov,
Minister of culture and tourism – Abulfaz Garayev,
Minister of education – Misir Mardanov,
Minister of health – Oktay Shiraliyev,
Minister of communication and information technologies – Ali Abbasov,
Minister of industry and energy – Natig Aliyev,
Minister of youth and sports – Azad Rahimov,
Minister of ecology and natural resources – Huseyngulu Bagirov,
Minister of transport – Ziya Mammadov,
Chairman of Committee on securities at the Azerbaijani President – Gunduz Mammadov,
Chairman of the Customs Committee – Aydin Aliyev,
Chairman of the Committee on land and cartography – Garib Mammadov,
Chairman of the State Committee on problems of family, women and children – Hijran Huseynova,
Chairman of the state statistics committee – Arif Veliyev,
Chairman of the committee on Azerbaijanis residing abroad – Nazim Abdullayev,
Director General of the State Agency for standardization, metrology and patent – Ramiz Hasanov,
Chairman of the State fund for social security – Salim Muslimov,
Chairman of the Commission on state service – Bahram Khalilov,
Chairman of the Republican agency for copyrights – Abutalib Samadov,
Director of State Agency for purchases – Imran Mehdiyev,
Chairman of the State Committee on state property management – Kerem Hasanov,
Chief of the State Register of real estate at the Cabinet of Ministers – Arif Garashov,
Chairman of the State Committee on city building and architecture – Abbas Alakbarov,
Chairman of the State Committee on religious organizations – Hidayet Orujov.
The new composition of the Government will be formed at the President’s decree. /Trend/