CNN to broadcast programme dedicated to Baku White City project
Baku, November 15 (AZERTAC). "Eye on Azerbaijan" is a CNN five-day series program about Azerbaijan, one of the issues of which will be devoted to the Baku White City urban development project.
The story, which will be on air on 15 November at 8 p.m. Baku time, will cover the project aimed at the transformation of the Black City of Baku into a new modern centre of the capital, formation of favourable socio-economic conditions here and improvement of ecological situation.
"Eye on Azerbaijan" will be on air every evening from 14 to 18 November at 8 p.m. of Baku time. The weekly program will highlight key aspects of the economy, culture, art and sport of modern Azerbaijan, and its image on the international arena.
CNN will pay special attention for Eurovision 2012 preparations as well.
The program will be online with direct connections from Baku with the presentation of Jim Clancy, a CNN International news anchor with more than 30 years’ experience covering the world. Clancy has reported on the collapse of Communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall, war in Iraq etc.
CNN, which is on air in more than 200 countries of the world, is now in Azerbaijan on the invitation of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan.
Urban Development Project Baku White City is carried out under the Decree of the President Ilham Aliyev on the approval of the “Plan of complex measures to improve the environmental situation in Azerbaijan in 2006-2010". Detailed information about the project can be found at www.bakuwhitecity.az.