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Azerbaijani parliamentarian Ganira Pashayeva held meetings within framework of Global Summit of Women in Beijing â€“ PHOTOSESSION

Azerbaijani parliamentarian Ganira Pashayeva held meetings within framework of Global Summit of Women in Beijing â€“ <font color=red>PHOTOSESSION </font>

22 May 2010 11:22 (UTC +04:00)

Beijing â€“ APA. Azerbaijani parliamentarian Ganira Pashayeva, who is attending the Global Summit of Women in Beijing, held a number of meetings. The parliamentarian said she had met with Vice President of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Doan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cultures, and Justice of Liechtenstein Aurelia Frick, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica Marlene Malahoo-Forte, Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Kazakhstan Gulshara Abdykalikova, Vice Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of Albania Filloreta Kodra, Minister of Higher Education of Oman Rawya Al Busaidi, Minister of Gender, Child and Community Development of Malawi Patricia Annie Kaliati, State Secretary for Education and Sport of Slovenia Alenka KovÅ¡ca, Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works of Bulgaria Lilyana Pavlova and Vice Minister for Womenâ€™s Education of Saudi Arabia Norah Al Faiz.

During the meetings the parliamentarian gave copious information about Azerbaijan. The parliamentarian said 20 percent of Azerbaijani territories had been occupied as a result of the aggressive policy, one million Azerbaijani refugees and IDPs failed to return home for more than 15 years, she gave information about the acts of vandalism committed by Armenians in Azerbaijani territories, Khojaly genocide, captive Azerbaijanis, including women and answered their questions.

MP noted that Armenia doesnâ€™t pay attention to resolutions of UN Security Council, Organization of Islamic Conference, PACE and doesnâ€™t withdraw from occupied territories of Azerbaijan. It doesnâ€™t give a chance to more than 1 million people consisting of thousands of Azerbaijani refugees and IDPs for returning to their homelands. Noting the importance of international communityâ€™s increased pressure on Armenia due to it, Mp asked all those women â€“ being authoritative in their countries and international arena to show severe protests against this injustice towards Azerbaijani refugee and IDP women at all platforms.

â€œPeople die with regret for returning to their homelands and there can not be bigger tragedy for one womanâ€ said Pashayeva. She noted that the biggest wish of Azerbaijani refugee and IDP women was to return to their homes and they had waited for support and strengthen efforts from world women in direction of returning back to their homelands. Mp informed about barbarism towards Azerbaijani refugee and IDP women, Armenian terrorist acts against Azerbaijanis and presented books and materials on Karabakh realities prepared by Heydar Aliyev Foundation. At the same time, views were exchanged on the role of women in society and in the government in Azerbaijan, policy and done works of the state in direction of process of solution to women and children problems, economic state, culture of Azerbaijan and etc. The woman leaders said that achieved information within such meetings and discussions were very important and significant for them. They also expressed their opinions about issues connected with their own countries.