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| PRESIDENT OF AZERBAIJAN ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVES JOINT DELEGATION OF UN SOCIO-ECONOMIC COMMISSION ON ASIA AND PACIFIC (UNESCAP) AND OF ECONOMIC COMMISSION ON EUROPE (UNECE)
Azertag, 11 March 2005
President of the Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev on March 11 at the President Palace has received the delegation of UN Economic-Social Commission on Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP) and delegation of UN Economic Commission on Europe (UNECE).
Noting that visit of the delegations of UNESCAP and UNECE to the country opens a new page in cooperation, the Head of the Azerbaijan State dwelt on the economic development processes in the Republic, stressing macroeconomic and other economic indices.
Speaking of realization of a number of economic programs, including regional development and poverty reduction, President Ilham Aliyev said in the last year over 170 thousand workplaces have been opened in the country, emphasizing that cooperation with the international structures in this field is high level. As he underlined, large energy projects are successfully being realized in Azerbaijan and the main is that there is special attention for social security issues.
Touching upon the question of regional cooperation, President Ilham Aliyev said the ongoing economic development processes in Azerbaijan and socio-political stability make contribution to establishment of cooperation, peace and security in the region. Unfortunately, aggression by Armenia to Azerbaijan, as a result of which over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's lands were occupied, one million of citizens became refugees and IDPs, seriously impedes cooperation and economic development in the region. Continuation of the conflict is a great threat to regional safety, advancement of economic processes. The international organizations should increase their efforts towards similar issues.
President Ilham Aliyev expressed confidence that visit of the delegations to the Country would serve expansion of international economic links, strengthening of the mutually beneficial ties between Azerbaijan and UNESCAP and UNECE.
Executive Secretary of the UNECE, UN Assistant Secretary General Brigitta Schmognerova highly assessed admission of Azerbaijan to UNESCAP. Giving great value to active participation of Azerbaijan in the regional development processes, she said UESCAP and UNECE welcomes cooperation with the Country. Brigitta Schmognerova stressed the importance of these processes and expressed confidence that admission of Azerbaijan to UNESCAP is of great significance for expansion of regional economic cooperation between Azerbaijan and Central Asian countries. She reiterated that the mutual cooperation would further enhance and develop.
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April 2005,
Issue No. 24
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LET ANCIENT HOLIDAY NOVRUZ BRING JOY
March 18,
Baku Sun
BAKU - Azerbaijan, best known as the land of fires, is - according to the British Museum's scientific team - also the site of the Gardens of Eden. When Sumerians - the first Turkic civilization, who rose as far back as 5,000 years BC - started preparations for New Year's celebrations, they sent envoys to the 'Gardens,' for sacred wheat seeds. It was strongly believed that sprouted wheat from the 'Gardens' would help to cultivate and gather bounteous harvest in the New Year that - according to Sumer augurs - comes into its own with the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates, the crucial sources of fresh water in the overwhelmingly arid Mesopotamia [modern day Iraq].
The tradition has been kept alive: Novruz, the most cherished holiday in modern day Azerbaijan, also remains a deep-rooted tradition in Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and Central Asian nations, including Kazakhstan. Though, nowadays, there is no need to travel to Azerbaijan for sacral seeds, as - again according to British Museum scientists - the Gardens have sunk into oblivion, under what presently is known as the city of Tabriz, the centuries-old 'custodian' of the Azeri heritage.
Novruz [the word meaning 'new day' in Farsi] marks the exhilaration of nature. The holiday, however, has other meanings too, as it has inherited much from all major cultures that celebrated it in the areas stretching out from the Balkans to the Altais, the original realms of the Turkic- and Finn-Ugor-language nations.
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