Warning to foreign citizens who want to travel to the Azerbaijani territories that occupied by Armenia Twenty per cent of the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan has been occupied by the military units of the Republic of Armenia. As a result of this military aggression, the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and its seven adjacent districts, including Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan, are still kept under occupation. About a million Azerbaijanis who lived in these territories became internally displaced persons. The UN Security Council adopted four resolutions, demanding withdrawal of the Armenian military units from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, while the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Non-Aligned Movement and other international organizations affirmed their recognition of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. The government of Azerbaijan reminds all citizens of foreign countries who want to travel to the Nagorno-Karabakh and other occupied territories that because of the continuing occupation by the Armenian military units those areas are temporarily out of control of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Any visit, without the consent of the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the aforementioned territories, which are internationally recognized as an integral part of Azerbaijan, is considered as violation of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Azerbaijan, its national legislation as well as relevant norms and principles of international law. The government of Azerbaijan urges all foreign citizens to refrain from travelling to the Nagorno-Karabakh region and other occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Foreign citizens, including journalists who want to travel to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan must apply to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Those who travel to the occupied territories without permission of the government of Azerbaijan will be blacklisted and denied entry to the Republic of Azerbaijan. ©Azertag.az

On the occasion of World Cities’ Day, celebrated on 31 October, UNESCO is designating 66 urban settlements that are to join the Organization’s Network of Creative Cities, which now number a total of 246 members. The Network brings together cities that base their development on creativity, whether in music, arts and folk crafts, design, cinema, literature, digital arts, or gastronomy. UNESCO creative cities commit to placing culture at the center of their development strategies and to sharing their best practices. Notably, Baku was selected to the Organization’s Network of Creative Cities by its design. The below-listed cities are new members of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network in different fields: Afyonkarahisar (Turkey) – Gastronomy Ambon (Indonesia) – Music Angoulême (France) – Literature Areguá (Paraguay) – Crafts and Folk Art Arequipa (Peru) – Gastronomy Asahikawa (Japan) – Design Ayacucho (Peru) – Crafts and Folk Art Baku (Azerbaijan) – Design Ballarat (Australia) – Crafts and Folk Art Bandar Abbas (Iran [Islamic Republic of]) – Crafts and Folk Art Bangkok (Thailand) – Design Beirut (Lebanon) – Literature Belo Horizonte (Brazil) – Gastronomy Bendigo (Australia) – Gastronomy Bergamo (Italy) – Gastronomy Biella (Italy) – Crafts and Folk Art Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) – Crafts and Folk Art Cebu City (Philippines) – Design Essaouira (Morocco) – Music Exeter (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) – Literature Fortaleza (Brazil) – Design Hanoi (Vietnam) – Design  Havana (Cuba) – Music Hyderabad (India) – Gastronomy Jinju (Republic of Korea) – Crafts and Folk Art Kargopol (Russian Federation) – Crafts and Folk Art Karlsruhe (Germany) – Media Arts Kazan (Russian Federation) – Music Kırşehir (Turkey) – Music Kuhmo (Finland) – Literature Lahore (Pakistan) – Literature Leeuwarden (Netherlands) – Literature Leiria (Portugal) – Music Lliria (Spain) – Music Mérida (Mexico) – Gastronomy Metz (France) – Music Muharraq (Bahrain) – Design Mumbai (India) – Film Nanjing (China) – Literature Odessa (Ukraine) – Literature Overstrand Hermanus (South Africa) – Gastronomy Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) – Music Portoviejo (Ecuador) – Gastronomy Potsdam (Germany) – Film Querétaro (Mexico) – Design Ramallah (Palestine) – Music San José (Costa Rica) – Design Sanandaj (Iran [Islamic Republic of]) – Music Santiago de Cali (Colombia) – Media Arts Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) – Music Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) – Film Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) – Crafts and Folk Art Slemani (Iraq) – Literature Sukhothai (Thailand) – Crafts and Folk Art Trinidad (Cuba) – Crafts and Folk Art Valladolid (Spain) – Film Valledupar (Colombia) – Music Valparaíso (Chile) – Music Veszprém (Hungary) – Music Viborg (Denmark) – Media Arts Viljandi (Estonia) – Crafts and Folk Art Vranje (Serbia) – Music Wellington (New Zealand) – Film Wonju (Republic of Korea) – Literature Wrocław (Poland) – Literature Yangzhou (China) – Gastronomy For more information please visit  https://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-celebrates-world-cities-day-designating-66-new-creative-cities © 2019 UNESCO  

    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. © 2019 Azertag © Photo credit Dilaver Najafov

  On 18-21 October 2019, the Khazar University has held elections to the International Student Council. The elections were held for the four student’s communities. Elected chairpersons of the Asian, African, Euroasian, and MENA communities are Mr. Imtiaz Ahmed, Mr. Mohammed A. Mohammed, Mr. Ahmet Coskun, Mr. Abdulhussein Alrubaye, respectively. The #StudyInAzerbaijan in its turn, congratulate all the winners and wish success in further prospect. © 2019 Khazar University International Office