PROGRAM ON QUESTIONS OF SETTLEMENT OF CONFLICTS AND PEACE DISCUSSED
[June 18, 2004, 22:12:37]

Azer Tag, Azerbaijan State Info Agency
June 18 2004

In the frame of project “Women for conflict prevention and peace
building in the Southern Caucasus”, the Fund for Development of Women
(UNIFEM) jointly with the Ministry of education of Azerbaijan held
a conference dedicated to teaching at the educational institutions
questions of the program and courses related to settlement of conflict
and peace.

Opening the action, attended by professor and tutor staff of numerous
higher schools, representatives of international organizations,
minister of education Misir Mardanov spoke of importance of the
realized project. In the condition existence of the painful question
for Azerbaijan – Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorny Karabakh conflict, pushing
forward on the agenda a question on peace has great importance. The
program has already been realized in 6 higher schools of the Republic
with participation of 450 students and reached success.

National coordinator of the UNIFEM project Gulshen Pashayeva, senir
technical adviser of the project Patricia McPhilips, Azerbaijan
Commissioner for human rights Elmira Suleymanova and chairperson
of the State Committee for Women Affairs Zahra Guliyeva spoke at
the conference.