Vasif Talibov

Vasif Talibov (also Talybov; Azerbaijani: Talıbov Vasif Yusif oğlu, born 14 January 1960, Aralig, Nakhchivan ASSR, Azerbaijan SSR) is the current chairman of the Supreme Assembly of Nakhchivan, and regarded as the de facto authoritarian ruler of the Nakhichivan Autonomous Republic, an autonomous exclave of Azerbaijan. He is related by marriage to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

He graduated at the faculty of history at Nakhchivan State Pedagogical University (currently Nakhchivan State University) in 1981 and the faculty of law at Baku State University in 1998. He knows Azerbaijani, Russian, Turkish and some English.

Firstly, he worked as a teacher in 1981 in the Damirchi village of Sharur Rayon. Starting from 1982, he worked as the instructor on personnel and then as the head of the special department in the knitted-goods factory of Nakhchivan.

From September 1991 to April 1994 he worked as chief assistant of the Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of Nakhchivan AR, from April 1994 to December 1995 the first deputy of the Prime Minister of the Nakhchivan AR on foreign economic relations.

He supported Heydar Aliyev after his return from Moscow to Nakhchivan to seize power and participated in the establishment of the New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) founded by Haydar Aliyev. He is a member of the Political Council and Presidium of the NAP. He is the Head of Nakhchivan AR Organization of the NAP since April 8, 1995.

Vasif Talibov has been elected as deputy of the Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic on November 12, 1995, on November 5, 2000, on November 6, 2005, and on November 7, 2010. He has also been elected as Chairman of the Supreme Assembly and Head of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic on December 16, 1995, on December 7, 2000, on November 28, 2005 and December 3, 2010 during the primary sessions respectively.

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