POLITICS
PRESS CONFERENCE AT CLERICAL OFFICE OF CAUCASIAN MUSLIMS HELD
The forum participants elected a Board of the CIS Inter-religious Council consisted of 22 religious figures. Two of them - Patriarch Aleksiy II and Sheikh ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazadeh - were conferred special powers of honorary co-chairs. An executive committee consisted of 19 Council members was also elected.
Within the frameworks of the international forum, sheikh ul-Islam A. Pashazadeh and Aleksiy II held one-on-one meeting and discussed bilateral relations and main goals facing religious leaders of CIS countries. Moreover, a meeting of religious leaders of Caucasus countries - sheikh ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazadeh, all Georgian Catholicos-patriarch Iliya II, Catholicos of all Armenians Garigin II and Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Aleksiy II - was also held during the forum.
Within the frames of the meeting the “round table” discussion mainly revolved around “Experience of inter-religious cooperation expansion at the regional level”, “Problems of religious education”, “Religion and Media”, “Peacemaking efforts of religious organizations”.
In conclusion, head of the clerical office responded to the journalists’ questions.