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Official closing press conference of WUF13 held

Official closing press conference of WUF13 held

Baku, May 22, AZERTAC

The official closing press conference of the 13th Session of the UN World Urban Forum (WUF13) has been held.

The conference was attended by Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat); Anar Guliyev, Chairman of the State Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of Azerbaijan and National Coordinator for WUF13; Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations; and María Victoria Romero Caballero, Ambassador of Mexico to Azerbaijan.

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