title: 2021 in Azerbaijan
text: # 2021 in Azerbaijan
  
  This is a list of individuals and events related to Azerbaijan in 2021.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Ilham Aliyev
  * Vice President: Mehriban Aliyeva
  * Prime Minister: Ali Asadov
  * National Assembly Speaker: Sahiba Gafarova
  
  ## Events
  
  ### Ongoing
  
  * COVID-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan
  
  ### January
  
  * 18 January:
     * COVID-19 pandemic: Mass COVID-19 vaccination begins in Azerbaijan, with Sinovac shots.
     * Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Armenia has returned all Azerbaijani prisoners who were captured during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
  * 21 January – The presidents of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, Ilham Aliyev and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, reach an agreement to jointly develop a hydrocarbon field, which was disputed between the two countries for around 30 years, in the Caspian Sea.
  