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March 3, 2005

President of Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva attended annual meeting of goodwill ambassadors of UNESCO

UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, President of Heydar Aliyev Foundation and Foundation of Friends of Azerbaijani Culture Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva arrived in French capital to take part in annual meeting of goodwill ambassadors.


Meeting started its work on March 3. Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva was sincerely welcomed at UNESCO HQ by Director General of organization Koichiro Matsuura and other officials.

 

Opening the meeting, Director General greeted participants of fifth meeting of goodwill ambassadors, reminded that two persons were appointed goodwill ambassadors in last year. Informing of activity of Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva, who was deserved title of goodwill ambassador, in our country, K. Matsuura stated that beside heading since 1995 Foundation of Friends of Azerbaijani Culture non-governmental organization, she showed special services in protection of cultural heritage, propaganda of mughams entered in 2003 in list of cultural legacy of mankind by UNESCO and development of rich Azerbaijani music, as Goodwill Ambassador Mehriban Aliyeva took part in action held in December of last year in Kazan city on presentation of Convention on protection of cultural legacy. Director General highly valued care shown by Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva over the last times to ill children and children deprived of parental care.

 

Then Koichiro Matsuura talked of attitude of goodwill ambassadors towards events threatening the world, specially of their help to ills suffering from dangerous disease such as AIDS, ties of the organization headed by him with UN in field of education and underlined that UNESCO always pays attention to quality of education.

 

Director General noted that UNESCO prepared special project on rendering assistance to children lost their parents during destructive tsunami in South-East Asia. Mr. K. Matsuura talked with anxiety of destruction of historical monuments due to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, expressed gratitude to a number of goodwill ambassadors as well to Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva for their merits in development of culture.

 

UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador MEHRIBAN ALIYEVA gave a speech in the meeting.

  

Speech of Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva was listened with great interest and welcomed by loud applauses.

 

Other goodwill ambassadors too informed on works they did, expressed their anxiety for expansion of AIDS threatening all the world, their attitude to measures to be taken by UNESCO and advanced their proposals.

 

Turkish Goodwill Ambassador emphasized its dissatisfaction for recognition of "genocide", invented by Armenians, by a number of countries, requested for involvement of historian scientists of the world through UNESCO in study of this issue.

 

In course of the meeting documentary films were shown about tsunami tragedy, destruction of Buddhist historical monuments in Afghanistan by Talibans, music, traditions and habits of Arabian world, drinkable water problem in African countries, illiteracy among children.

 

Then UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura was taken memorial picture with goodwill ambassadors and gave banquet in their honor.

 

Head of Humanitarian Policy Department of Azerbaijani President`s Executive Apparatus Fatma Abdullazade and ambassador of our country to UNESCO Eleanor Huseynova were present in meeting. 


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