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WikiLeaks: Azerbaijan: ‘The Minister of Everything Significant’ and His Son
A U.S. Embassy cable from Baku, leaked by WikiLeaks, gives a report on Azerbaijan’s Heydarov family, “the second most powerful commercial family in Azerbaijan,” noting the lobby efforts of Tale Heydarov, the head of the European Azerbaijan Society (TEAS), especially in regards to Nagorno-Karabagh.
According to the cable, the Heydarov family’s most powerful member is Kamaladdin Heydarov, who has been the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES), otherwise known as “The Ministry of Everything Significant,” since 2006. “Observers have said he might be even more powerful than the President himself.”



