Hikmet Farhad oglu Hajiyev (; born 15 October 1979) is an

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i politician who serves as the Assistant to the

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since 2019 and as the Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration since 2018.

Early life and diplomatic career

Hajiyev was born in 1979 in

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(then known as Kirovabad) and graduated from Secondary School No. 24. He graduated from the Faculty of International Relations and International Law at

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. He also holds a master's degree from NATO's Defense College, the

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, and

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. Hajiyev has worked in the system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2000. In different years, he worked at Azerbaijani representative offices in NATO,

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, and

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. From 2014 to 2018, Hajiyev served as the head of the Press Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Azərbaycan XİN-in Mətbuat xidmətinin rəhbəri vəzifəsini Hikmət Hacıyev icra edəcək
/ref> On 9 July 2018, he was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Service in Diplomatic Service, and a year later, he was awarded the Order of Merit for Service to the Fatherland of the 2nd degree.

Foreign policy advisor

On 18 September 2018, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration. Later that November, he became the head of this department and on 29 November 2019, he became an official assistant to the President. When describing his role in the administration during the

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, President Aliyev said that he is "speaking with my assistant Hikmet Hajiyev probably 10 times a day".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hajiyev, Hikmet Living people Government ministers of Azerbaijan 1979 births People from Ganja, Azerbaijan Baku State University alumni