ILHAM ALIYEV PLEDGES TO CONTINUE FATHER'S CAUSEOctober 22, 2003 - 19:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Ilham Aliyev elected president of Azerbaijan pledges to continue his father's cause. He explains his victory at the election first of all by the fate of Azeris that the way chosen by Heydar Aliyev will be continued by his successor, "Novosti" Russian agency reported. "I will continue the course of development of free society and democracy," Aliyev Jr. stated. Answering a question on whether the prospects of going down in history only as one continuing the cause of Heydar Aliyev and not as an innovator president do not confuse him, Ilham Aliyev stated, "In the history of Azerbaijan there have already been such "innovators," who wanted to close schools with Russian language of instruction, the Academy of Sciences, creative unions
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