(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 5. The second
international conference of the Western Azerbaijan Community on
"The Right to Return: Advancing Justice for Azerbaijanis Expelled
from Armenia" has rolled out the red carpet for the award ceremony
of the community's honorary membership certificates, Trend reports.
The certificates were awarded to former Foreign Minister of
Türkiye, Head of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye Delegation
to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Deputy
Chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party),
descendant of the Iravan khanate's ruler Huseynali Khan Amir Ali
Sardar Iravani, Turkish MP Zafer Sira Kaya, Secretary General of
the World Movement of Pan-African Women Leaders headquartered in
Brussels Aishe Bashe, Chairman of the Türkiye-Azerbaijan
Parliamentary Friendship Group, Member of Parliament Samil Ayrim,
Founder and CEO of the Global Institute of Water, Environment, and
Health, based in Switzerland, member of the Swiss Water Partnership
and Asian Water Council Nidal Salim, Turkish MP Canturk Alagozu,
Head of the American Center for Religious Freedom, Kan Scott,
Deputy Chairman of the Turkish-Azerbaijani Interparliamentary
Friendship Group, MP Orhan Erdem, Member of the Arts and Heritage
Association in Romania Nicoleta Zagure, Special Advisor to the
President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on
International Relations and Diplomacy Huseyin Isiksal, Director of
the Institute of Applied Ethnopolitical Studies at the Ministry of
Culture and Tourism of Kazakhstan, former Ambassador Talgat
Kaliyev, Editor of the scientific journal of the Sukhumi State
University, Honorary Doctor of the A. Bakikhanov Institute of
History and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of
Azerbaijan, awarded by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev,
with the "Taraggi" Medal Guram Markhuli, Director of the Heydar
Aliyev Center for Eurasian Studies in Türkiye Yasar Sari, Director
of Economyfirst Limited London, well-known journalist Klaus Peter
Ralph Jurgens, and Editor of the Italian journal on international
issues "OPINIO Juris – Review of Law and Politics", researcher at
the European Youth Think Tank in Strasbourg Valentina Chabert.
The list is chock-full of 16 individuals, with six hailing from
Türkiye, two from Germany, and one each from the US, Belgium,
Georgia, Switzerland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Romania, and the Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus.
To note, Baku is hosting the second international conference of
the Western Azerbaijan Community on "The Right to Return: Advancing
Justice for Azerbaijanis Expelled from Armenia," Trend reports.
Over 100 representatives from 51 nations are participating in
the conference.
The event will address the historical context of the coerced
displacement of Western Azerbaijanis from Armenia, the foundation
of their right to return, the preservation of cultural legacy, and
diplomatic initiatives in this domain.
December 5 is designated as the Day of Remembrance for the
Deportation of Western Azerbaijanis from 1987 to 1991. An analogous
international conference titled "Ensuring the Safe and Dignified
Return of Displaced Azerbaijanis from Armenia: Global Context and
Just Solution" occurred on this date last year, featuring over 100
participants from 44 nations.
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