May 10 marks the 98^th anniversary of National Leader Heydar Aliyev. The Azerbaijani people will never forget the savior of our statehood, the eldest son of the Turkic world Heydar Aliyev. This year, as every year, our people go to the Alley of Honors to commemorate the memory of the architect and founder of Azerbaijan, the great leader and lay flowers at his grave. Azerbaijani people are happy that their leader was a wise politician. As a result of the efforts of this genius, Azerbaijan has achieved irreversible independence, development, and progress. He was a genius leader who devoted his entire life to his native people and laid the foundation of national statehood. Throughout his life, Heydar Aliyev thought about the future of his homeland and people, believed in the eternity of Azerbaijan's independence with all his being, and determined the foundations of ideas and strategic directions of development of this state. The concept of political and economic development of Azerbaijan, founded by Heydar Aliyev and serving to strengthen the state's independence, was duly continued by President Ilham Aliyev in the following years. Efforts to implement Heydar Aliyev's ideas are bearing fruit now, and the thoughtful and purposeful measures taken by Heydar Aliyev in the past serve to solve the current and future problems of Azerbaijan, strengthen our independence and the progress of our state and people.  National Leader Heydar Aliyev is a person who engraved his word in golden letters in the history of Azerbaijan's independence with his policy.