On 24 October 2019, Youth Summit of the NAM held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
 
The speeches were delivered by the Minister of Youth and Sport of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Azad Rahimov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ramiz Hasanov, and Deputy Minister of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan Firudin Gurbanov.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ramiz Hasanov mentioned that the NAM is the second largest international political organization after the UN and is an appropriate platform for political consultations and practical cooperation.

In its turn, Minister of Youth and Sport Azad Rahimov emphasized that ongoing first Youth Summit of the NAM was initiated by Azerbaijan. Mr. Azad Rahimov also mentioned that four international youth organizations were founded in Baku in the last 15 years.

The Deputy Minister of Education, Firudin Gurbanov, said that the NAM became a global platform of discussion of the restoration of peace and dialogue. Touching upon the education system Deputy Minister mentioned that Azerbaijan rapidly developed in this area for the last years. 2 years ago, with the initiative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, scholarship program, exclusively designed for the citizens of the Member Countries of the NAM, was launched to enable them to study in the leading universities of Azerbaijan at the preparatory courses, undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, general medicine/residency programs. Under the program, 20 scholarships are granted to citizens of the NAM member countries on an annual basis. According to the results of admission within the scholarship program in the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic years, in total, 37 citizens from 31 countries of NAM have been granted to study at the leading public and private universities of the Republic of Azerbaijan. They currently study in the field of economics, oil and gas engineering, medicine, agriculture, international relations, and so forth.

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