POLITICS
Athens hosts international conference on humanitarian challenge of European Mediterranean partnership
Athens, November 22, AZERTAC
Co-organized by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center and the Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation, an international conference under the motto "The Humanitarian Challenge of European Mediterranean partnership: A wake up call" has got underway in Athens, Greece.
The participants in the event included the Azerbaijani President's Assistant for Public and Political Affairs Ali Hasanov, Chairman of Azerbaijan`s State Committee on Work with Diaspora Nazim Ibrahimov, as well as influential statesmen and political figures of the EU and Mediterranean basin countries, including members of Board of Trustees of Nizami Ganjavi International Center, former Presidents of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Valdis Zatlers, former President of Serbia Boris Tadic, former President of Croatia Ivo Josipovic, former President of Bulgaria Petar Stoyanov, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Marianna V. Vardinoyannis, public and political figures, heads of the Azerbaijani diaspora organizations in Europe, scientists and media representatives.
The international conference aims to share ideas and initiatives for the prevention of humanitarian crises in the Mediterranean basin, and focus on the issues as migration, integration, national identity and multiculturalism, particularly separatism and self-determination.
Elgun Niftali
Special Correspondent