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| PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVES DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE UN FAO
Azertag, 29 April 2005
BAKU, Azerbaijan - President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received today Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Jacques Diouf and accompanying delegation.
He expressed satisfaction with FAO’s expanding activities in Azerbaijan, and confidence that the visit by the organization’s delegation to Baku would serve enhancing of bilateral cooperation.
Touching on the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, the Azerbaijani leader highly appreciated the aid provided by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to over a million refugees and IDPs from the conflict with Armenia.
UN FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf has confirmed that the organization has expanded its activities in Azerbaijan taking concrete steps towards rendering aid to the refugees and IDPs. He let the President know that his organization is preparing a plan of actions to assist Azerbaijan in development of other spheres including agriculture and farming. Mr. Diouf finally expressed confidence in further deepening of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
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May 2005,
Issue No. 25
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In tribute to the late Pope John Paul II
REMEMBER WHEN THE POPE VISITED AZERBAIJAN IN 2002
May 22, 2004
Baku Sun
BAKU - The eyes of the world were on Baku this week as the frail but apparently indomitable Pope John Paul II visited for 24 hours. The Pontiff, who turned 82 on May 19, is believed to have more than doubled the size of Azerbaijan's Catholic community during his visit by bringing an average of more than 100. Some 170 journalists registered to cover the visit.
Following a brief visit to Martyrs' Lane after arriving Wednesday afternoon, the Pope met President Heydar Aliyev and an audience of invited political, cultural and artistic leaders where he spoke in unusually direct terms about the importance of good relations between different religious, and condemned corruption equally strongly.
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