Focus on Statue of Heydar Aliyev, Mexico City and explain the Removal.
On 22 October, to determine the future of the statue, a special commission was created. In January 2013, the group recommended its removal. Five months after its installation, the sculpture was removed by Mexico City authorities during the early morning of 26 January. The city had previously signed an agreement to keep the statue in place for 99 years. It was transported to a warehouse of the Urban Development and Housing Secretariat, located at Camarones Avenue and Eloudy Street, colonia (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhood") of Del Recreo in the Azcapotzalco borough. Joshua Kucera described the place as "strewn with debris and stacks of bricks", calling it an "ignominious fate" for Aliyev.Manuel Luna, private secretary of Mukhtarov, said the embassy of Azerbaijan was never notified about the removal. The embassy asked the city government to give them back the statue. Salvador Campos, former Mexican ambassador to Azerbaijan and Turkey, considered the problem was that the government of Mexico City never consulted the Secretary of Foreign Affairs. As a consequence, Azerbaijan withdrew 3.8 billion US dollars of investment that would be used for building oil refineries and for improving public spaces in Mexico.As of November 2013, the statue was placed in a private home in the colonia of Lomas de Chapultepec. In January 2015, the government of Mexico City donated to the embassy of Azerbaijan a property along Paseo de la Reforma in Lomas de Chapultepec. On account of the controversy, the Committee for Monuments and Artistic Works in Public Spaces (Comité de Monumentos y Obras Artísticas en Espacios Públicos, COMAEP) was created to avoid similar incidents in the city.
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