Ganira Pashayeva

Ganira Alasgar gyzy Pashayeva (Qənirə Ələsgər qızı Paşayeva, 24 March 1975 – 28 September 2023) was an Azerbaijani politician who was a Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan from 2005 until her death in 2023.

Ganira Pashayeva was born in the village of Düz Qırıqlı of Tovuz Rayon on 24 March 1975.

She graduated from the Pediatrics Department at Azerbaijan State Medical University, and the Department of International Law at the Baku State University in Baku.

She was able to speak Turkish, English and Russian.

From 1998, Pashayeva worked as a reporter, correspondent, editor, leading editor, senior leading editor and deputy editor-in-chief of the news section at the ANS Group of Companies.

In 2005 she became head of public relations department of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.

On 6 November 2005, she was elected Member of Parliament from Tovuz Constituency No 105.

She was a member of the Standing Commission of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan on International and Inter-Parliamentary Relations and head of the Azerbaijan–Georgia working group on interparliamentary relations.

She was also a member of the Azerbaijan–India, Azerbaijan–Turkey and Azerbaijan–Japan working groups on interparliamentary relations.

She was one of the members of the delegation of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

On 24 September 2023, Pashayeva fell into a coma as a result of exposure to medicines and was taken to the Central Clinical Hospital in Baku.

She died four days later, on 28 September, after having been placed in the intensive care unit.

In 2012, Pashayeva worked as a pediatrician for two weeks in Somalia and helped the residents.