Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993)

Azerbaijan Communist Party Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası Азəрбаjҹан Коммунист Партиясы
Leader	Rauf Gurbanov
Founded	1993
Headquarters	Baku, Azerbaijan
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Far left
International affiliation	International Communist Seminar
Continental affiliation	Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Colours	Red
Party flag
Website
kommunist.biz/

The Azerbaijan Communist Party (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası (ACP); Азəрбаjҹан Коммунист Партиясы (АКП)) is a communist party in Azerbaijan. AKP was set up in 1993 by Ramiz Ahmadov (March 6, 1939 – September 10, 2007) and registered by the Justice Ministry in 1994.

AKP maintains close contacts with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and wants reunification with Russia while still being patriotic. In one occasion Ahmadov stated: we are Narimanovists, followers of the national, cultural and economic ideas of Nariman Narimanov.^[1]Nariman Narimanov was a moderately nationalist and leftist Azeri leader of the 1920s, and is viewed in retrospect as a forerunner of "national communism."

AKP often criticizes United States politics in the region. In 2004 after the US State Department told that US was not planning to impose sanctions on Nagorno Karabakh, Ahmadov said that the Americans underhandedly supported the Armenian interests and that Washington was not interested in the settlement of the conflict. He also added that the great powers are making use of the Karabakh conflict for their own interests.

AKP was strongly against the Azeri participation into the Iraq war and it often expressed solidarity to Palestinian people, to Cuba and also to "socialist Moldova".

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