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An Event Dedicated to the Book “The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on the Azerbaijani Model of Multiculturalism”

17 may, 2018

On 14 May the students of Azerbaijan University of Languages, who were serving the pedagogical internship at school-lyceum #6 of Sabail district, organized an event dedicated to the book “The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on the Azerbaijani Model of Multiculturalism”.

First, a video introducing the AUL was presented to facilitate the pupils in their forming a profound idea about Azerbaijan University of Languages.

The Senior Advisor of Baku International Centre of Multiculturalism Tofig Abbasov stated that despite the state of war, the Azerbaijani state has always maintained humanism within itself, “Africa, Europe are facing huge problems on religious and national bases. The Azerbaijani state is regulating the processes on its territory and attach special attention to them. Azerbaijan’s young generation should also support our state in this path with their intellect, culture and worldview, hold our banner always high. If a person’s intellect, worldview are at high level, this is already an indicator of the level of his people, nation”.

The Director of school-lyceum #6 Gulshan Orujova underlined the great importance of the topic for the pupils and added that today multiculturalism is one of the guidelines of education. According to the Director, who pointed out the development of a decent, devoted, educated generation as the main target, while teaching the world culture, history and religions at school, the pupils are, above all, inculcated with respectful approach.

The Head of the Chair of Azerbaijani Linguistics of the AUL, Professor Adil Babayev noted that today Azerbaijan is a country exemplary to the entire world. The political founder of multiculturalism in Azerbaijan is the National Leader Heydar Aliyev. It is owing to him that there is respect and high esteem to all the religions in Azerbaijan. And today the National Leader’s policy is decently continued by the President of the country Ilham Aliyev.

The Associate Professor of the Chair of Azerbaijani Literature Nurlana Mustafayeva thanked the authorities of the school-lyceum for the conditions arranged for the students during their pedagogical internship. Further she emphasized that though in some societies in Europe there is multiculturalism, the legal system forces people to be humanist, multicultural. According to her, the present level of tolerance in our country is the result of the policy pursued by President Ilham Aliyev, and in Azerbaijan there is equal attitude to a citizen regardless of his/her religion, language and national identity.

The Jewish and Pakistani pupils studying at the school-lyceum spoke and stated that though they have been living in Azerbaijan for years already, and they belong to other nationalities, they have seen a very sincere, warm attitude, respect towards their religions, languages, customs and traditions, and for these values they love the Azerbaijani people very much.

At the event the pupils recited Abdulla Shaig’s poem “We Are All the Particles of the Sun!” and the Great Huseyn Javid’s poem “At the Girls’ School”.