Baku – APA. On October 18, Azerbaijanis celebrate the 25th anniversary of the restoration of the country’s state independence. Azerbaijan’s Supreme Council adopted the Constitutional Act on State Independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan on 18 October 1991. The document reads that based on the Declaration of Independence adopted by the Azerbaijan’s National Council on 28 May 1918 and on the democratic principles and traditions of the Republic of Azerbaijan and following the Declaration adopted by the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan on 30 August 1991, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Azerbaijan adopts this Constitutional Act and institutes the basic principles of the state, political and economic structure of the independent Republic of Azerbaijan.

Real-estate investment and development firm Caerus Group has signed a lease with a Turkish trade group for half of its Midtown Manhattan building. TTC USA Consulting Corp. will take 27,750 square feet on five floors at 10 E. 34th St., a 10-story building near the Empire State Building, said Andy Udis, a partner at ABS Partners Real Estate LLC who represented Caerus with Ronald Zimmerman, an executive managing director at ABS. With this deal, the office portion of the early 20th-century building is completely leased. Asking rents started at $65 a square foot.