5th Baku International Humanitarian Forum...

Baku International Humanitarian Forum is an annual platform for famous representatives of political, scientific and cultural elite of the world community including famous statesmen, Nobel Prize winners in various fields of science and leaders of influential international organizations for holding dialogues, discussions and exchange of views on a wide range of global issues in the interest of all humanity.

The initiators of the forum in 2010 were the presidents of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his then Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. The forum is held once a year in the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in Baku.

The 5th Baku International Humanitarian Forum has today started at the Heydar Aliyev Centre.President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva attended an official opening ceremony of the Forum.

The fifth Baku international humanitarian forum involves consideration of the humanitarian problems, prospects and challenges of the XXI century taking into account the realities of the globalizing world.

The purpose of the forum is to build a dialogue through round tables. It is the creation of arenas for architecturing the exciting minds from a simple layman to a leader of a country where all can listen and be heard.The objective of the forum is the formation of a platform for constructive debates and discussions, exchange of ideas, theoretical and practical knowledge.The result of the forum are embodied in recommendations and calls to international organizations, leaders and every single individual.

Plenary session of the forum will be held today. Political and religious figures, as well as Nobel Prize winners, chairmen of round tables will deliver speeches at the session. Round tables on the following directions: “Different models of multiculturalism: from theory to humanitarian practice”, “the Importance of preserving human capital in terms of mass movement of people as a basis for sustainable development”, “Transformation of journalism in the information age and its role in ensuring inter-civilizational dialogue, Sustainable development and ecological civilization”, “Molecular biology, Biophysics, biotechnology and training issues in modern medicine: innovative and ethical issues”, “the Convergence of technologies and predictions of the future: main challenges of the 21st century will be held on September 30.

The organizers and participants of the Forum are representatives of natural and social sciences, as well as cultural elite of the world who have an ambitious task of forming a new humanitarian agenda with the aim of its further consideration in the world scale.

The head of state addressed the opening ceremony of the Forum.

Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets hailed the importance of the event. She read out Russian President Vladimir Putin's message to the Forum participants.

UN Assistant Secretary-General Ayse Cihan Sultanoğlu read out United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's message to the Forum participants.

Then ISESCO Director General Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri and UNESCO Deputy Director-General Getachew Engida addressed the event.

The Baku Forum features plenary sessions and speeches of the round table chairs.