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AZERBAIJAN HOSTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "WOMEN AND STATE BUILDING"
Azeri Press Agency
March 5 2008
Azerbaijan
Baku. Laura Jabrayilli-APA. International conference "Women and State
Building" has been held on the initiative of Azerbaijan Social Welfare
Party. APA reports that representatives from Turkey, France, Russia,
Egypt, Hungary, Ukraine, Kuwait, Jordan and other countries attended
the conference.Professor Maarife Hajiyeva made a speech on the theme
"Women and State Building: Problems and Prospects".
"Those, who say that family is a small state, are not mistaken.
Family paves the way for great state building merits of women,"
she said.
Maarife Hajiyeva put forward the initiative on instituting the order
of "Honor of Family", which should be given not to the mothers of
large families, but to those who have brought up children useful for
the society.
Vice-Speaker of the Parliament Bahar Muradova said holding the
conference on the eve of March 8th - International Women's Day was
a very pleasant event.
"Azerbaijani women are represented in the government agencies. 14 out
of 125 members of the Parliament are women. Women are also represented
in the municipalities, though their number does not satisfy us,"
she said.
MP Ganira Pashayeva said Azerbaijani women mostly suffered from the
results of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. She said Azerbaijan People
had underwent genocide by Armenians several times, a lot of people,
including women and children had been killed. Ganira Pashayeva said
Armenians continued pursuing hostile policy against Azerbaijanis and
mentioned the developments happened in Terter and Goranboy the day
before. The parliamentarian offered her condolences to Azerbaijani
people and the families of the Azerbaijani soldiers, who had been
killed in the shootout with Armenian aggressors. She said the
document condemning Armenians' aggressive policy and assessing the
recent developments should be adopted on behalf of the conference
participants.
Vice-Speaker of Egyptian Parliament Zeyeb Radvan, Vice-Speaker of
Kyrgyz Parliament Cholpon Tursunova, Russian MP Natalya Karpovich and
others also addressed the conference. They said that mutual visits
and various international events contributed to the intercourse among
women and solution of common problems.
Azeri Press Agency
March 5 2008
Azerbaijan
Baku. Laura Jabrayilli-APA. International conference "Women and State
Building" has been held on the initiative of Azerbaijan Social Welfare
Party. APA reports that representatives from Turkey, France, Russia,
Egypt, Hungary, Ukraine, Kuwait, Jordan and other countries attended
the conference.Professor Maarife Hajiyeva made a speech on the theme
"Women and State Building: Problems and Prospects".
"Those, who say that family is a small state, are not mistaken.
Family paves the way for great state building merits of women,"
she said.
Maarife Hajiyeva put forward the initiative on instituting the order
of "Honor of Family", which should be given not to the mothers of
large families, but to those who have brought up children useful for
the society.
Vice-Speaker of the Parliament Bahar Muradova said holding the
conference on the eve of March 8th - International Women's Day was
a very pleasant event.
"Azerbaijani women are represented in the government agencies. 14 out
of 125 members of the Parliament are women. Women are also represented
in the municipalities, though their number does not satisfy us,"
she said.
MP Ganira Pashayeva said Azerbaijani women mostly suffered from the
results of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. She said Azerbaijan People
had underwent genocide by Armenians several times, a lot of people,
including women and children had been killed. Ganira Pashayeva said
Armenians continued pursuing hostile policy against Azerbaijanis and
mentioned the developments happened in Terter and Goranboy the day
before. The parliamentarian offered her condolences to Azerbaijani
people and the families of the Azerbaijani soldiers, who had been
killed in the shootout with Armenian aggressors. She said the
document condemning Armenians' aggressive policy and assessing the
recent developments should be adopted on behalf of the conference
participants.
Vice-Speaker of Egyptian Parliament Zeyeb Radvan, Vice-Speaker of
Kyrgyz Parliament Cholpon Tursunova, Russian MP Natalya Karpovich and
others also addressed the conference. They said that mutual visits
and various international events contributed to the intercourse among
women and solution of common problems.