Azerbaijan`s First Lady, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation – Mrs Mehriban Aliyeva – has today met Farid Mammadov who represented Azerbaijan at Eurovision-2013 song contest in Malmo, Sweden and finished second in the Grand Final.

The First Lady – who was involved in the planning of Eurovision Contest last year in Baku – congratulated Farid Mamadov on his “successful performance and presentation of Azerbaijan`s culture in the final show of the contest”.

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Mrs Aliyeva went on to say that it remarkable how the country has managed to perform consistently well at Eurovision in it’s brief history – where they have not failed to finish in the Top 10 in the Grand Final since they entered the contest in 2008-  and puts it down to “good team work”.

Farid Mammadov expressed his gratitude to  Mrs Mehriban Aliyeva and the Heydar Aliyev Foundation “for the care…