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Azerbaijan`s parliament on Tuesday adopted a constitutional law on providing security for former presidents and their families.

The measure was approved during a referendum held in 2009, but the issue was put on voting again because it is a constitutional law, chairman of the parliamentary committee on legal policy and state building, Ali Huseynli, told a parliamentary sitting Tuesday.

In accordance with the Constitution, ex-presidents will receive a pension amounting to 50 percent of the incumbent president`s salary.

Besides people who have held the presidency, the law applies to those who acted as presidents but died, presidents whose powers were suspended, as well as members of their families. The law does not apply to impeached presidents.

In the case of the death of the former president, his wife will receive these retirement benefits. In the absence of his wife, his children will receive the pension when they reach the age of 18.

The law provides the ex-president with a state car, a driver and three bodyguards.

Ex-presidents and their spouses will also be provided with diplomatic passports. Their inviolability will be protected by the law.