"In the 1990s, along with the role of U.S. and other western countries, Heydar Aliyev's strategic vision has an exceptional role in protecting Georgia's existence, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Tedo Japaridze, said at the panel "Multi-vector foreign policy of Heydar Aliyev" within the framework of the international conference on "Priorities of the foreign policy of national leader Heydar Aliyev".
Ednews informs that Tedo Japaridze stressed that Heydar Aliyev is an irreplaceable personality for Georgia: "Thanks to Heydar Aliyev's importance to Georgia in the energy policy, Georgia took an important place in the world."