HEYDAR ALIYEV FUND PARTICIPATED AT FIRST MEETING OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON PROTECTION OF NON-MATERIAL HERITAGE
Author: S.Aliyev
TREND, Azerbaijan
June 27 2006
On June 27, PM Mehriban Aliyeva, president of Heydar Aliyev Fund and
also good-will ambassador of UNESCO in Azerbaijan, participated at
the first meeting of the General Assembly of courtiers ratifying the
convention on protection of non-material heritage in Paris.
The director general of UNESCO Kaitira Matsura mentioned the important
role of Mehriban Aliyeva in the protection of music and non-material
cultural heritage of Azerbaijan. Besides, she noted that at present,
convention was ratified by 45 countries and 7 countries have joined
the convention.
In her speech, Aliyeva congratulated the participants on the occasion
of conviction’s entering into force. She noted that the genetic base
of all world nations is non-material heritage and peoples played
an important role in the formation of this factor. Therefore the
protection of non-material heritage is of great importance in the
modern .world. She presented information about the non-material
cultural heritage of Azerbaijan. Particularly she noted that mugam
(national Azeri music) has become one of the masterpieces and
non-material heritage of Azerbaijan.
Aliyeva presented to the attention of the participants that at the
moment there are conflicts, and wars in world which destroy cultural
heritage. In result of Armenian-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
Armenians have destroyed hundreds of architectural and cultural
monuments and cities in the occupied territory of Azerbaijan. Aliyeva
stressed that it needs to increase the attention of international
organizations and the world public towards this issue.