UNICs promote UN Issues

The United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) Baku in partnership with the Azerbaijan National Commission for UNESCO, Ataturk Centre and the Association of Culture of Azerbaijan “Simurg” facilitated a roundtable discussion on the “Need for a Culture of Dialogue on the road to a Dialogue of Cultures” on 19 May 2007 at Ataturk Centre bringing together around eighty participants from three ministries, (Culture and Tourism, Foreign Affairs, and Youth and Sport), State Committee for Family, Women and Children, Chairs for the Parliamentary Commissions for Human Rights, Culture, and the representative of the Commission on International Relations of the Parliament, and other government officials and even a political opposition representative, as well as heads and members of different CSOs and NGOs, academic institutions and universities, representatives of international organizations. The topic of discussion and the high level of representation drew significant mass media attention.