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Azerbaijan hosts international conference â€œWomen and State Buildingâ€

05 March 2008 14:19 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Laura Jabrayilli-APA. International conference â€œWomen and State Buildingâ€ has been held on the initiative of Azerbaijan Social Welfare Party. APA reports that representatives from Turkey, France, Russia, Egypt, Hungary, Ukraine, Kuwait, Jordan and other countries attended the conference.Professor Maarife Hajiyeva made a speech on the theme â€œWomen and State Building: Problems and Prospectsâ€.
â€œThose, who say that family is a small state, are not mistaken. Family paves the way for great state building merits of women,â€ she said.
Maarife Hajiyeva put forward the initiative on instituting the order of â€œHonor of Familyâ€, which should be given not to the mothers of large families, but to those who have brought up children useful for the society.
Vice-Speaker of the Parliament Bahar Muradova said holding the conference on the eve of March 8th â€“ International Womenâ€™s Day was a very pleasant event.
â€œAzerbaijani women are represented in the government agencies. 14 out of 125 members of the Parliament are women. Women are also represented in the municipalities, though their number does not satisfy us,â€ she said.
MP Ganira Pashayeva said Azerbaijani women mostly suffered from the results of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. She said Azerbaijan People had underwent genocide by Armenians several times, a lot of people, including women and children had been killed. Ganira Pashayeva said Armenians continued pursuing hostile policy against Azerbaijanis and mentioned the developments happened in Terter and Goranboy the day before. The parliamentarian offered her condolences to Azerbaijani people and the families of the Azerbaijani soldiers, who had been killed in the shootout with Armenian aggressors. She said the document condemning Armeniansâ€™ aggressive policy and assessing the recent developments should be adopted on behalf of the conference participants.
Vice-Speaker of Egyptian Parliament Zeyeb Radvan, Vice-Speaker of Kyrgyz Parliament Cholpon Tursunova, Russian MP Natalya Karpovich and others also addressed the conference. They said that mutual visits and various international events contributed to the intercourse among women and solution of common problems.