Azerbaijan Independence Day
Azerbaijan Independence Day is held on October 18. Celebrates the independence of Azerbaijan from the Soviet Union in 1991. This event in the second decade of the month October is annual.
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Azerbaijan marks Independence Day with pride, sorrow. After challenges of declaring independence, now nation fights to regain occupied territories and mourns civilians lost. History proved to Azerbaijan that preserving its self-determination was far more difficult than first gaining its independence.
Fast-forwarding to 1991. On Aug. 30, 1991, the Azerbaijani parliament, Ali Sovet (Supreme Council), adopted the Declaration on the State Independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan. This constitutional act was approved and adopted by the Supreme Council on Oct. 18, 1991.