Azerbaijan is among the countries with the best indicators worldwide in ensuring socio-economic security in recent decades. This success is based on the significant efforts, dedication, wisdom, and management skills of President Ilham Aliyev and nationwide support, Azerbaijan's Security Council Secretary Ramil Usubov wrote in his article published in the newspaper "Azerbaijan," Report informs.
"Thanks to the head of state's comprehensive reform concept, Azerbaijan has become a politically and economically stable and secure country, a political, economic, and cooperation center of the region, an important transit hub, initiator of global energy, transport and infrastructure projects, a reliable partner and member of the global space family. In the liberated territories of Karabakh and Eastern Zangazur, which previously served as hotbeds of international crime, a solid security system and corresponding infrastructure are being created today. These lands, once associated with separatism, are turning into a center of international cooperation, peace, development, and culture. Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev now also acts as a leader creating a new history of grand development there. In Karabakh and Eastern Zangazur, where hundreds of thousands of people will return, hundreds of hospitals, sports complexes, educational and cultural institutions, social infrastructure, airports, tunnels, bridges, hundreds of kilometers of railways and thousands of kilometers of roads will be built. The integration of liberated territories into the country's economy will create a reliable foundation for Azerbaijan's further development and security," Usubov emphasized.
He noted that the First Vice President of the Azerbaijan Republic and President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva plays a special role and provides invaluable support in implementing this honorable mission.
"Thanks to social, humanitarian and cultural projects carried out by respected Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva in Karabakh and Eastern Zangazur, as well as her support for large-scale restoration, construction and improvement works, the president's state policy receives significant additional momentum. These examples of selflessness demonstrate to the world Azerbaijan's strength, our state's firm will and people's desire for creation. We can proudly note that the development process in Karabakh and Eastern Zangazur, as well as significant foreign investments, contribute to forming a reliable and stable security environment in Azerbaijan and the Caucasus, strengthening stability and eliminating factors that threaten development and current situation. Old conflict hotspots are intensifying again near Azerbaijan's borders and new wars are breaking out, creating a global threat. The number of refugees and internally displaced persons who have left their countries due to bloody wars and internal disagreements already numbers in the millions. Threats to state sovereignty are increasing under the influence of external factors and provocations. Even the world's strongest states suffer from terrorism and transnational crime. These realities have not bypassed the region where Azerbaijan is located. However, our citizens in this geographical space live, create and build in conditions of security, stability and peace. While sources of global crises and international threats continue to expand, creating the most powerful Azerbaijan in history is President Ilham Aliyev's unprecedented merit to our past, present and future."