Our lives are connected to cities, and our challenges are also connected to cities.
elchi reports that this was stated by Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan and Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration, at the opening ceremony of the WUF13 NGO Forum, held within the framework of WUF13 in Baku, which is taking place for the first time in WUF history at the initiative of Azerbaijan.
He stated that Azerbaijan is the most fertile and suitable place for these discussions.
“We are ready to share our experiences and learn from others. Azerbaijan’s ancient city of Gabala was one of the key cities on the ancient Silk Road. Preserving ancient heritage in modern cities is a challenge in itself. In the liberated territories, 10,000 square kilometers of land have been contaminated with mines. We are creating a new life in the territories contaminated with mines. 9 of our cities were deliberately destroyed and wiped off the face of the earth. For example, the city of Aghdam, known as the ‘Hiroshima of the Caucasus’, is one of those destroyed cities. But that is in the past. We are building an ideal future,” he emphasized.