BUDAPEST HOSTS 3RD INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

Baku, 19 November,(AzerTAj)The 3rd International Scientific Conference on “Hungary-Azerbaijan: Dialogue of Cultures-2008” commenced Tuesday in Budapest, Hungary.

Co-organizers of the event are: Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Hungary, Institute of
History of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Philosophy
and Political-Law Researches, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Azerbaijan
National History Museum of ANAS, Azerbaijan Ataturk Center, as well as Institute of
Ethnography of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Legal and Political
Sciences, Eotvos Lorand University and Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with
Azerbaijanis Living Abroad.
The event brings together representatives of the state structures, public
organizations, scientific circles, professors, teachers and students of the
Hungarian Universities and members of the Azerbaijani Diaspora organizations.
Azerbaijan is represented by ANAS vice president, director of the Azerbaijan
National History Museum, academician Naila Velikhanli, as well as director of ANAS
History Institute, member of the Milli Majlis (Azerbaijan Parliament) Yagub
Mahmudov, director of the Archeology and Ethnography Institute, Professor Mais
Rahimov and ANAS member Ilyas Babayev.
More than 40 scientists will report during the three-day conference.
Opening the event, Azerbaijani ambassador to Hungary Hasan Hasanov said that
conducting of such conferences will contribute to bringing the two peoples closer to
each other and developing Azerbaijan-Hungarian Humanitarian Relations.