APA, Azerbaijan
Feb 27 2009

Azeri president appoints new head of district in separatist Karabakh

Baku, 27 February: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a
decree on appointing Bayram Asad oglu Safarov as the head of the
executive authority of Susa District [in the centre of the breakaway
Nagornyy Karabakh region, currently under Armenian control], the press
service of the presidential administration has told APA news agency.

[Former] head of Susa District executive authority Nizami Bahmanov
died on 13 September 2008.