Guided by Item 23 of Article 109 of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, I hereby order:
To award "Azerbaijani Flag" Order to the following employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, who showed loyalty to police oath and courageously and heroically died while preventing an attempt to brutally disrupt public order in the city of Ganja on July 10, 2018:
Ilgar Mammad oglu Balakishiyev – police colonel (posthumously)
Samad Yunis oglu Abbasov – police colonel-lieutenant (posthumously).
Ilham Aliyev
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Baku, 13 July, 2018