This forum brought together more than 40 thousand registered participants from 182 countries, said Chairman of the State Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture Anar Guliyev while delivering the final statement of the ministerial meeting on the New Urban Agenda within the framework of the 13th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) held in Baku, APA reports.
He noted that if we count all the people working and supporting the organization of the event, this number exceeds 50 thousand:
“We also highly appreciate the visionary leadership of President Ilham Aliyev, as well as the efforts of UN-Habitat and the Executive Director to create this important platform for international cooperation on decent housing and sustainable urbanization.