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Opening ceremony of 2nd Baku International Book Exhibition-Fair - PHOTOSESSION

Opening ceremony of 2nd Baku International Book Exhibition-Fair - <font color=red>PHOTOSESSION</font>

28 September 2011 10:14 (UTC +04:00)

The fair is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, APA reports. Deputy Prime Minister, peopleâ€™s writer Elchin Efendiyev made a keynote speech at the ceremony. Congratulating everyone on the book holiday, Elchin Efendiyev said the exhibition-fair had become a tradition. Deputy Prime Minister said the books displayed at the fair make it available to get acquainted with the history, culture, literature and present state of Azerbaijani people. The writer underlined that the examples of national and world literature had been recently published in Latin alphabet.
Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfas Garayev said books will be presented, meetings held with famous writers, symposiums and discussions held within the framework of the three-day exhibition-fair. According to him, 121 books printed in Azerbaijani publishing houses, 135 books of international publishing houses are introduced at the event covering 25 countries. The Minister underlined that such events will be held in the regions.

Abulfas Garayev also said Azerbaijan was represented in 20 international book fairs within a year. Our books won the first, second, third prizes, as well as Grand Prix.

The books printed in the local publishing houses, as well as in the publishing houses of the US, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Hungary, Macedonia, Slovakia, Belarus, Latvia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries within the past three years are being displayed at the book fair.

The exhibition will end on September 30. The best publishing house and the best book will be awarded by the Organizing Committee.