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Azerbaijan hosts International Humanitarian Forum

04 October 2012 08:43 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Victoria Dementeva â€“ APA. International Humanitarian Forum â€œXXI century: Hopes and Challengesâ€ is being held in Baku today. APA reports that the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev also attends the forum. The appeal of Russian President Vladimir Putin was read, UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova video appeal was demonstrated and ISESCO Director General Abdulaziz bin Osman al-Tuveycri, made a speech during the opening ceremony of the forum.
Round tables on the following directions will be held tomorrow within the forum: â€œHumanitarian aspects of economic development modelsâ€, â€œModern media and challengesâ€, â€œNew methodological approaches to globalization processes in XXI centuryâ€, â€œMulticulturalism and cultural consciousnessâ€ and â€œMulticulturalism in public lifeâ€.
Baku Declaration will be adopted within the forum. About 600 representatives from 100 countries are attending the forum, among them more than 10 Nobel Prize winners, 15 former presidents, heads of government, ministers of various countries, outstanding figures on science, education and culture.
Baku International Humanitarian Forum is an annual event, which gathers statesmen, Nobel winners and heads of authoritative international organizations, including famous representatives of political, scientific and cultural elite of the world for holding wide spectrum dialogues and discussions.
The initiators of the Forum in 2010 were Azerbaijanâ€™s President Ilham Aliyev and his counterpart, former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev.