Diplomat, public figure Ramiz Abutalibov has died.

Director Tahir Tahirovich told APA.

He died in Moscow this evening.

It should be noted that Ramiz Abutalibov was born on October 27, 1937 in an intellectual family.

After graduating from the Azerbaijan State University (1960), he continued his education in Moscow at the All-Union Foreign Trade Academy (1971) and the Academy of Social Sciences (1984).

In 1980-1984, he served as head of the foreign relations department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, chairman of the commission on foreign affairs of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Abutalibov was an employee of the United Nations Secretariat for Education, Science and Culture - UNESCO in Paris in 1971-1979, as well as in 1985-1992.

From 1993 to 2004, he served as Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Secretary General of the Azerbaijani National Commission for UNESCO.

Ramiz Abutalibov played a special role in the study of the lives and activities of Azerbaijani public and political figures who lived in exile after the collapse of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1920, and in finding archival documents abroad. R. Abutalibov made a great contribution to the collection and delivery of these invaluable historical documents to Azerbaijan. He is the author of twelve books on these documents. Eight of them were published in Moscow, three in Baku and one in Istanbul. He is the author and publisher of four books on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict published in France in 1989-1992.

He is one of the founders of the "Azerbaijan House" association in Paris in 1989.

He was responsible for the erection of a memorial plaque to Alimardan bey Topchubashov, a monument to Azerbaijanis who died for the freedom of France in Rhodes, the restoration of the graves of several emigrant compatriots in France, the World Heritage Art "Icheri Sheher" (2000) and "Mugam" (2003). was one of the main organizers of its inclusion in the list.

In 2016, the Baku Media Center made a documentary "Eternal Journey" about Azerbaijani diplomats who went to Paris in 1919 with the participation of R. Abutalibov, and published a book-album "Strange Tombs".

Ramiz Abutalibov has been a pensioner of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan since October 2016.