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  • BAKU: Baku Declaration Of 5th Session Of The ICTM Condemns Deliberat

    BAKU DECLARATION OF 5TH SESSION OF THE ICTM CONDEMNS DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION OF ISLAMIC MONUMENTS BY ARMENIA

    APA
    Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
    12 Sep 2006

    The fifth session of the Islamic Conference Tourism Ministers has
    come to an end today. Baku Declaration and Resolution was adopted at
    the end of the Session, APA reports.

    The Deceleration reflects reaffirmation of previous conferences and
    meetings, being committed to policy of openness and close cooperation
    with the world's relevant international organizations operating in
    the field of tourism and cultural exchanges such as UNWTO and UNESCO,
    reiteration of Islam as a religion of Pease and advocating principles
    of appreciation of human values, tolerance with regard to religion
    and races and peaceful coexistence of all nations, the vital role of
    diplomacy in the development of tourism.

    The Declaration reads that terrorism, conflicts, territorial
    occupation, natural disasters, epidemics and economic crises
    seriously harm the economic development and negatively affect
    the tourism potential of the Member States. It also says that the
    important role of tourism for intercultural exchanges, preservation and
    popularization of Islamic historical and cultural heritage, promotion
    of better knowledge and mutual understanding among civilizations
    as well as the role of the tourism can play in overall improvement
    of the image of Islam. In the Declaration it was decided to join
    efforts toward increasing the tourism flow among the Member States,
    create favourable climate for investment projects in the sector
    of tourism and related activities, urge member States to actively
    participate in tourism fairs in OIC countries, promote youth tourism,
    develop tourism in costal and rural types of tourism, simplification
    of visa issuance procedures with non-OIC countries, condemn any
    manifestation of terrorism and aggressive separatism and stress the
    importance of expeditious solution of conflicts, all of which have
    detrimental impact on tourism and on the exercise of peoples' right for
    leisure and travel, strong condemn the illegal exploitation of natual
    resources and the destruction of cultural and historical monuments
    in the territories of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenia as well as the
    deliberate destruction of Islamic cultural and historic monuments in
    the territory of Armenia in accordance with the norms and principles
    of international law, particularly those related to the territorial
    integrity and inviolability of internationally recognized borders of
    a state.

    The other adopted document- a resolution endorses the efforts of
    ICCI aimed at encouraging the private sector to play its due role in
    promoting tourism and takes note of the initiative of ICCI to establish
    an International Tourism Company, adaptation of open visa for the
    movement of businessmen among the OIC member states, facilitating
    of the movement of media people among the movement States in order
    to utilize the media to serve the purposes of tourism, promote youth
    tourism in OIC countries, condemn Israeli aggression.

    The Declaration expresses gratitude to Mr. Ilham Aliyev for kindly
    patronizing the Conference and for his guidance-giving speech he
    delivered at the opening ceremony as well as thanks to the government
    and the people of Azerbaijan for the warm welcome and generous
    hospitality extended to the delegations.
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