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Leyla Aliyeva: Azerbaijan has become a country of tolerance, dialogue, new ideas

29 September 2016 16:40 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Malahat Najafova – APA. Azerbaijan is a land of ancient traditions and rich history, a place that sits at the crossroad between East and West, where Eastern wisdom and Western progress meet, said vice president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, founder of the International Dialogue Initiative for Protection of Environment (IDEA), Leyla Aliyeva.

She made the remarks during the round table on “Sustainable Development and Ecological Civilization” held as part of the fifth Baku International Humanitarian Forum.

Aliyeva noted that Azerbaijan has become a country of tolerance, dialogue and new ideas.

“We have launched IDEA – the international campaign for dialogue and environmental action. Our intention was to educate and invite youth not only in Azerbaijan, but also around the world to protect the nature,” she said.

“Every 15 minutes an elephant dies at the hands of poachers,” said Aliyeva.

“I am very happy about the recent news that due to enormous efforts of our fellow environmentalists, the panda population has increased and it is not “endangered” anymore,” she said.

“In Azerbaijan, we have achieved similar success with regard to gazelles. It was five years ago that we launched a conservation project to protect and increase the population of gazelles,” said Leyla Aliyeva.

“Now, we are working hard on a project to protect the highly endangered Caucasian leopard and Caspian sturgeon,” she added.

“Still today 125 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. This is not only a humanitarian crisis; it is also a crisis of development. It cannot be solved by humanitarian action alone, but through a comprehensive and coherent approach”, said Aliyeva.