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Allahshukur Pashazadeh to attend high-level groupâ€™s meeting

20 July 2009 08:46 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Victoria Dementyeva â€“APA. Chairman of the Caucasian Muslims Office Sheikh-Ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazadeh will attend the first meeting of the high-level working group on inter-religious dialogue, APA reports quoting ITAR-TASS. UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura will be present at the first meeting of the high-level group headed by Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill to be held in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow on July 22. Other participants include Muhammad Hayat, the Muslim World League (MWL), Yona Metzger, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, Martin Schindehutte, Bishop for relations with foreign countries and other Christian confessions of the German Evangelical Church, Archbishop Antonio Menini, the Vaticanâ€™s representative in Russia.
The settlement of inter-religious conflicts, the prevention of religious defamation and the preservation of religious holy sites during armed conflicts will be discussed at the meeting.