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Budapest hosts next section of 4th International Scientific Conference from series â€œAzerbaijan-Hungary: dialogue of culturesâ€

17 November 2009 16:05 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. The next section of the 4th International Scientific Conference from the series â€œAzerbaijan-Hungary: dialogue of culturesâ€ is being in Budapest, press service of the State Committee on Work with Diaspora told APA. Making a keynote speech at the conference Azerbaijani ambassador to Hungary Hasan Hasanov presented the honorary awards of the embassy to the professor of Hungarian Institute of Linguistics, member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences Giorgi Hazai and director of the ELTE Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor IstvÃ¡n VÃ¡sÃ¡ry for their merits in strengthening and developing the relations between the two countries. Following this, the letter of Hungarian Foreign Minister to the conference participants was read. The first day of the conference was devoted to literature and linguistics. Professor IstvÃ¡n VÃ¡sÃ¡ry and vice-president of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, academician Naila Valikhanli chair the meeting.

The second part of the international conference entitled â€œHISTORY, ARCHEOLOGY and ETHNOLOGYâ€ will be held on November 18. Director of the European Folklore Institute Mihaly Hoppal, academician Naila Valikhanli will chair the meeting. Speeches will be delivered on the themes â€œDevelopment of archeology and ethnography in Azerbaijan early in the 21 centuryâ€, â€œHistorical relations of Caucasus and Carpathian Basinâ€, â€œSimilar traditions and rites of skif and Turkish peopleâ€, â€œCentral Europe and Eastern Transcaucasia: relations and trajectory of signs in the late Bronze Age and early iron ageâ€, â€œAbout ethnogeny of Azerbaijanisâ€ on the second day of the event.

Scientists from Poland, Turkey, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Azerbaijan, Hungary, Kazakhstan are attending the event/
The conference is being held on the initiative of Azerbaijani embassy in Hungary, with support of the State Committee on Work with Diaspora, with participation of the Institute of Economy of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary-Azerbaijan Friendship Group of Azerbaijani parliament. The conference will end on November 19.