With a view to promoting Azerbaijan and extending the relations between the countries and peoples, Days of Azerbaijani Culture were held with the organizational support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, 27-28 September 2014, in Athens.
To this end, the city of Athens was decorated with banners about Azerbaijan, and various video films were shown on monitors installed in streets of the city.
A charitable concert
The Days of Culture was launched, September 27, with a charitable concert at Iridio Theatre of Athens designed for five thousand onlookers. The charitable concert was held with the joint support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Greece and the Marianna Vardinoyannis Foundation of Greece with a view to helping the support to education project in Greece.
The Uzeir Hajibeyli State Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Honoured Person of Art Fakhraddin Karimov, and the State Dance Ensemble performed at the concert.
Presentation of “Baku-2015” first European Games
On September 28, presentation of the European Games to be held in 2015 in Baku took place at “Acropolis” Museum in Athens.
The ceremony was attended by Azerbaijan’s First Lady, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva, the President of the Greek Parliament, a deputy Prime Minister, the minister of administrative affairs, the minister of tourism, MPs and representatives of the sports society.
After the presentation, Azerbaijani masters of art performed with a concert programme.