An event was held at Incomplete secondary school No.64 in Bucharest devoted to the friendship between Romania and Azerbaijan
On November 10, 2010, an event dedicated to the friendship between Azerbaijan and Romania was held at Incomplete secondary school No.64 of the 2nd Sector of Bucharest, following the initiative of the Romanian Representative Office of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Romania.
Opening the event with a broad statement, Director of the school Violeta Dascalu talked of the old history of relations between Romania and Azerbaijan. She said our country has great cultural potential for Romania not yet discovered, and the school headed by her attached great importance to building relations with Azerbaijan.
Chairman of Bucharest Writers Association, writer and playwright Horia Garbea shared with his impressions of Azerbaijan during his trip to Azerbaijan in 2009 and 2010, gave comprehensive information about Azerbaijan’s history, culture, moral values and contemporary life, accompanied by a slide show comprised of pictures taken by himself, and presented newly printed book “Azerbaijan – The Living Flame”.
At the event, Azerbaijani songs were performed by musician Alikhan Samadov in balaban, then an amateur group comprised of the school’s pupils showed a scene with poems of eminent Azerbaijani poet Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh in Romanian. And pupils of higher forms of the school presented, with the help of visual aids, the research work they prepared on historical and geographical parallels between Romania and Azerbaijan.
Director of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation’s Representative Office in Romania Igbal Hajiyev and employee of Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Romania Fakhri Karimli emphasized that the friendship relations between the two nations have started from education of the young generation in the right direction. They thanked the management of School No.64 for attaching importance to widening of these relations. At the event, the close partnership relations built between Azerbaijan and the 2nd Sector of Bucharest, where this school is located, were talked about, and it was brought to attention that a bust of Azerbaijani people’s national leader Heydar Aliyev was erected in the park “Tey Park - Heydar Aliyev Alley” located in this sector.
Then the participants acquainted themselves with an art exhibition called “Azerbaijan in the eyes of Romanian Children”, a creative work of schoolchildren.
