Azerbaijan University of Languages

NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR IN AMERICAN CENTRE.

The meeting under the title Eastern Vikings was held with Ion Ramberg, Norwegian Ambassador Extraordinary to Azerbaijan on February 20, 2008 in Baku American Centre. This interesting meeting held with the participation of more than 60 teachers and students was organized by Scandinavian Centre and Baku American Centre functioning in AUL.

AUL student was awarded in the international Essay Contest in Malaysia
Leyla Haziyeva, the first year student of AUL, represented Azerbaijan in the international Essay Contest, held in the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, under the financial support and administration of the Ministry of Education of Malaysia on February 16-24, 2008. The main goal of the contest, which was represented by the delegates of 50 countries, was to gather the youth studying Malay language in various countries and to propagate Malay culture and language extensively.

THE CRIME COMMITTED BY ARMENIAN DASHNAKS AGAINST AZERBAIJAN WILL NOT REMAIN UNPUNISHED

This requirement was sounded again in remembering ceremony connected with 16^th anniversary of Khojali tragedy held at Azerbaijan University of Languages.
The chief of the Youth Organization Shahin Ismayilov opened the remembering ceremony of the 16^th anniversary of Khojali tragedy held in the conference hall of educational building 2 of AUL, on February 25, 2008 and notified that 16 years before a bloody page had been written in the history of Azerbaijan by Armenian dashnaks. The ancient Azerbaijan city Khojali was demolished completely by armed Armenian dashnaks at the midnight of February 25, infants, girls and women, old women, men were killed by never seen wildness. The houses were robbed and fired, peaceful residents were burned alive, their eyes were pulled out and their heads were cut off, 613 Azerbaijanis were killed ruthlessly, 56 people were burned alive, 1000 people were made invalid and 1270 people were captivated, 6 families were completely demolished, 150 people were lost and there has been no information on their destiny.

Enhancing academic quality assurance: Needs and Challenges
There was held a conference dedicated to Enhancing academic quality assurance the needs and challenges, on April 10 in the University of Languages. The conference was organized by the Ministry of Education, AUL and European Educational Law and policy association.

Presentation ceremony of "tercume.az" website is held
Presentation ceremony of "tercume.az" website created based on the "Treasure of the Azerbaijani Language-creation of the electronic database with the aim to improve and code the Azerbaijani language" project was held with the support of the Eternal Flame Cultural Relations Public Union and AUL at the American Center on May 17.

Korean Prime-minister's Wife's visit to Azerbaijan University of Languages
On May 19, Hong Sojani, Korean Prime-minister's wife, met with the teaching staff and students of the Chair and Translation Department of the Korean Language.

Intensiv Summer Azerbaijan Language Courses at Indiana University
Each month we recognize the activities and accomplishments of a visiting scholar. We recently had two scholars arrive in our office with such energy and enthusiasm that we thought it would be fun to present them together as our featured scholars. Please welcome Fiala Abdullayeva and Vafa Yunusova