CHIEF OF AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION`S DEPARTMENT ATTENDS DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION

Baku, 29 AUGUST,(AzerTAj)Ali Hasanov, head of socio-political department of Azerbaijan`s presidential administration attended the US Democratic National Convention and International Leaders Forum in Denver, Colorado, from August 25 to August 28, 2008, at the Pepsi Center.

It was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party
where it adopted its national platform and officially nominated its candidates for
President and Vice President of the United States. U.S. Senator Barack Obama of
Illinois, the nominee for President, gave his acceptance speech on August 28 at
Invesco Field in what the party called an "Open Convention". Obama officially
received the nomination for President on August 27, when his former opponent Hillary
Rodham Clinton interrupted the official roll call to move that Obama be selected by
acclamation. U.S. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware accepted the nomination for Vice
President on the same night. Obama accepted his nomination the following night in a
speech at INVESCO Field.
International Leaders Forum was also held at the Democratic National Convention. The
forum focused on modern world politics, developments in the Caucasus, realities,
prospects and forecasts.