New Azerbaijan Party Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası | |
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Abbreviation | YAP |
President | Ilham Aliyev |
Vice President | Mehriban Aliyeva |
Founder | Heydar Aliyev |
Founded | 21 November 1992 |
Registered | 18 December 1992 |
Headquarters | Sergey Senyuşkin küç. 26, Baku, Azerbaijan |
Youth wing | Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası Gənclər Birliyi |
Women's wing | Qadınlar Şurası |
Membership | ![]() |
Ideology | |
Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
Continental affiliation | International Conference of Asian Political Parties |
International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International (observer)[18] |
Colours | Blue, Yellow, White |
National Assembly | 69 / 125 |
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The New Azerbaijan Party (Azerbaijani: Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası, YAP) is the ruling political party in Azerbaijan, founded on 21 November 1992 under the leadership of Heydar Aliyev. After his election as President of Azerbaijan on 3 October 1993, and the party's victory at 1995 parliamentary elections, YAP became the ruling party, a position it has held since. President Ilham Aliyev has been chairman of YAP since its 3rd congress held on 26 March 2005.
YAP is a member of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP)[19] and an observer member of the Centrist Democrat International.[20]
The party's rule over the country has been described as authoritarian.[21]
The resolution was passed by 635 votes to 2, with 42 abstentions, one month after the Azerbaijani government announced plans to erase Armenian inscriptions from churches in areas retaken by Azerbaijan [...] Azerbaijan's Culture Minister Anar Kerimov claimed that the churches had been built by Caucasian Albania, an ancient kingdom that covered much of modern-day Azerbaijan's territory. He set up a working group tasked with removing "false" Armenian traces from them.
Армянофобия – институциональная часть современной азербайджанской государственности, и, конечно, Карабах в центре этого всего. "Armenophobia is the institutional part of the modern Azerbaijani statehood and Karabakh is in the center of it."