2023 “Year of Heydar Aliyev”

100th anniversary of the National Leader of the Azerbaijani people, Heydar Aliyev.

On April 24-27, 1996, President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev paid an official visit to the Kingdom of Norway. The visit was made at the invitation of the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway, Gro Harlem Brundtlandt.

Arriving in Norway, an oil rich country of Europe after his visit to Luxembourg and Belgium, late President Heydar Aliyev held numerous meetings with the representatives of official and business circles in Norway.

Official visit of Late President Heydar Aliyev continued in the capital city of Norway Oslo and then in Stavanger, a big industrial and financial Centre. In Oslo, Late President Heydar Aliyev met his Majesty Harald V, King of Norway, Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brutlandt, Chairman of the Parliament Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl, Foreign Minister Bjørn Tore Godal and Minister of Energy and Industry Jens Stoltenberg and Thor Heyerdahl. A ceremony of the signature of “the Agreement on friendship and cooperation between Azerbaijan and Norway” was held. With the signature of this document an official legal-diplomatic ground of relations between the two oil countries was laid.

Heydar Aliyev Norway
Heydər Əliyev Norveç

Archive Photographs Courtesy of the National Archive Department of the Republic of Azerbaijan

We gratefully acknowledge the use of historical images provided by the National Archive Department of the Republic of Azerbaijan. These photographs offer valuable visual insight into the official visit of President Heydar Aliyev to the Kingdom of Norway in 1996, as well as the official visits of Norwegian dignitaries to the Republic of Azerbaijan. They serve as an important visual record of Azerbaijani–Norwegian diplomatic history.