BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 29. The “Baku Process”,
launched on the initiative of the President of the Republic of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in 2008, with the “World Forum on
Intercultural Dialogue” as a component, has been recognised by the
UN as one of the key global platforms for intercultural dialogue,
said Speaker of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova whilst commenting
on the topic of UN reforms in her speech at the 6th World
Conference of Speakers of Parliament held in Geneva of the Swiss
Confederation, Trend reports.
According to Speaker Sahiba Gafarova, the Azerbaijani Parliament
organised an Inter-Parliamentary Conference on the sidelines of the
5th session of this Forum In May of last year, which conference
ensured a parliamentary perspective in the deliberations on the
aforementioned topic. In view of this, the Speaker of the Milli
Majlis proposed including the theme of intercultural dialogue in
the future agenda and activities of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union.
