Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has shared a post on his X account on the occasion of June 15 — National Salvation Day.

One of the greatest challenges faced by the Azerbaijani people in modern history was the tragedies and political crises that occurred after the departure of the Great Leader Heydar Aliyev from political power. In October 1987, Heydar Aliyev resigned in protest against the policies of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Shortly after his resignation, Armenian nationalists demanded the secession of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region from Azerbaijan and its transfer to Armenia. If Heydar Aliyev had been in power, the Armenian nationalists would not have dared to make such attempts.