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 In 2011, Baku will host a forum on intercultural dialogue initiated by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev said on Oct.13. The sixth conference of the Islamic countries' culture ministers in Baku which is to end on Oct.15 adopted a communiqué on the development of intercultural dialogue. |
 It is planned to launch direct the Baku-Damascus flights to develop tourism ties between Syria and Azerbaijan by late October, Syrian Culture Minister, Riad Nasan al-Agha said. The Minister said that Azerbaijan will likely carry out this flight. |
 The Baku branch of the International Institute of Monitoring Democracy Development, Parliamentarianism and Suffrage Protection for the Citizens of the Interparliamentary Assembly (IPA) CIS, will hold the training entitled "Training of local observers for municipal elections." |
 Azerbaijani flags will be allowed to the Turkey-Armenia football match to be held in the Turkish city of Bursa on Oct. 14, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Turkey Zakir Hashimov told Trend News. "Turkish Foreign Ministry, the presidential staff and the office of Prime Minister [of Turkey] did not give orders banning the Azerbaijani flags at the match," said Hashimov. "Bringing the Azerbaijani flag cannot be banned." |
 The Azerbaijani State Customs Committee has burnt a huge party of expired and unfit for human consumption food products confiscated when importing into the country, the committee said on Oct.13. The committee has burnt 78,170 units of tobacco products of various kinds, 634 units of biological food additives of unknown composition, 634 bottles of beer, 787 liters of homemade alcoholic beverages, 41,820 pieces of firecrackers, fireworks and pyrotechnics, as well as 56 kilos of caviar. |
 Experts of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Patents will take part in the discussions on "Halal məhsul" standard at a meeting of the working group of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the committee said on Oct.13. The working group will meet in Istanbul on Oct.12-16, the committee added. |
 As for Oct. 1, the portfolio of the Azerbaijani giant leasing company - AGLeasing CJSC, amounted to 11.078 million manat, said the company on Oct. 13. "The total number involved leasing contracts for the period amounted to 133," the company said.Equipments worth 11.63 million manat were handed over leasing. |
 The loan to the amount of $450 million which 'Azerbaijani Railway' CJSC plans to get from WB will be spent for change of energy system, modernization of communication, signal system, purchase of 50 electric locomotives operating on alternating current, head of CJSC Arif Askerov said. |
 The Azerbaijan Railways Joint Stock Company (JSC) has submitted proposals to the Tariff Council to increase prices for passenger traffic, the head of JSC, Arif Asgarov said on Oct. 13. "A letter with the proposals has already been submitted to the Tariff Council," said Asgarov. |
 On Oct. 12, Azerbaijan and Germany signed an agreement on improving the skills of top managers in the economy of Azerbaijan, the Embassy of Germany in Azerbaijan said. The agreement was signed in Baku by the representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan and the Ministry of Economics and Technology of Germany. |
 Azerbaijan stands for the preservation of cultural values around the world and is open to discuss further horizons of development of the Islamic culture, said Abulfaz Garayev Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Minister, participating in the sixth conference of the Islamic countries' culture ministers in Baku. |
 "People worldwide expect the Muslim countries to take steps and now we have a good chance to discuss the future of Islam," said Riad Nasan al-Agha Syrian Culture, who is participating in the sixth conference of the Islamic countries' culture ministers in Baku. |
 The 23rd case of swine flue has been revealed in Georgia. As previous 22, this case was also imported from abroad, the Georgian Health Ministry said. Arriving in Georgia was a man who had been infected in the United States. A 77-year old man is in a normal condition. The man is under treatment at home and form of flu seen in the lung form. |
 On Oct.15, Astana will host the on Kazakh-Russia Ministerial Consultations at the level of deputy foreign ministers, Spokesman of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry Yerzhan Ashikbayev said. The Kazakh delegation will be headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Konstantin Zhigalov and his Russian counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko - the Russian delegation, Ashikbayev added. |
 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a visit to Iraq to meet with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and his Iraqi counterpart, Nouri al-Maliki, the Turkish Anadolu news agency said. The Turkish delegation, including several ministers and businessmen, headed by Erdogan will visit Iraq on Oct.15. |
 "We believe that Turkey will not take a step contrary to the interests of Azerbaijan," the Deputy Chairman of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP), Ali Ahmadov told journalists on Oct. 13. Ahmadov said Ankara still has the opportunity to stand up for the interests of Baku, as the Protocols will be submitted to the parliaments of Turkey and Armenia, before they will enter into force. |
 Turkey will always follow the Azerbaijani interests, Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilich told Trend News on Oct.13. "The Azerbaijani-Turkish relations are based on the brotherly ties. Turkey and Azerbaijan are brother countries and we will always take into consideration Azerbaijan's interests," Kilich said. |
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