The Baku Worldwide Multiculturalism Middle (BIMC) and the Middle of Evaluation of Worldwide Relations (AIR Middle), in partnership with the G20 Interfaith Dialogue Discussion board, lately invited the delegates to a convention titled “Embracing Range: Tackling Islamophobia in 2024” held in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital.
On March 15, 2022, the United Nations Common Meeting unanimously adopted a decision on Worldwide Day to Fight Islamophobia.
Marking the second anniversary of the decision, the BIMC and the AIR Middle aimed to foster tutorial dialogue on the issue of Islamophobia inside a number of contexts, amongst others, confronting Islamophobia within the context of upper training, digital Islamophobia, and gendered Islamophobia.
The Azerbaijani expertise is of non secular tolerance and cultural variety the place totally different religions are extensively unfold and totally different ethnic teams coexist and reside in peace and mutual understanding with none group making an attempt to dominate the opposite.
With its gorgeous setting atop a mountain in Karabakh in addition to its immense literary, musical, and carpet-weaving heritage, Shusha is a spot the place nature and tradition mix completely.
Shusha is the esteemed Cultural Capital of Azerbaijan, honored because the Cultural Capital of the Islamic World for 2024. Each Shusha and Fuzuli are amongst Azerbaijani cities being rebuilt and restored following the destruction throughout Armenia’s 30 years’ struggle of occupation that led to 2020.
On March 31, 2022, throughout a unprecedented session of the Everlasting Council of Ministers of Tradition of the members of Turkic Tradition (TURKSOY) within the metropolis of Bursa, Turkiye, the cultural capital of Azerbaijan, town of Shusha, was introduced as Cultural Capital of the Turkic World for the Yr 2023.
The choice was a mark of particular respect for Shusha, a shining pearl of structure and the artwork of city planning with a 270-year historical past.
Town holds nice cultural and religious significance for the individuals of Azerbaijan. It may now function a brand new image of unity and solidarity throughout all the Turkic world, contributing to additional prospects of intensifying cooperation amongst Turkic individuals.
Nestled in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh area, Shusha has a unprecedented story of resilience and a wealthy heritage. It is usually referred to as the cradle of Azerbaijani music and has been known as dwelling by towering figures of Azerbaijani literature.
Town of Shusha has been present process outstanding transformation. Large reconstruction efforts are underway, with all kinds of latest infrastructure tasks launched within the historic area.
These embrace the Ritzy Resort, state-of-the-art hospital, and big housing tasks. One other notable mission has been the Vicory Highway, a freeway that connects Shusha to town of Fuzuli, symbolizing the triumph of hope after years of despair.
Traces of Shusha’s compelling historical past can be seen within the varied landmarks dotted across the metropolis. Essentially the most important of those is the Shusha Fortress, which delegates first visited. It was constructed within the 18th century by Panah Ali Khan, the founding father of the Karabakh Khanate that existed with Shusha as its capital from about 1748 to 1822, by which era it had been built-in into the Russian Empire.
Among the many most important historic monuments of town are the traditional Yukhari (Higher) Govhar Agha and Ashagi (Decrease) Govhar Agha mosques standing out with their elegant structure. They’re distinguished by their splendor.
Each have been constructed within the 19th century by Karnalayi Safikhan Garabaghi, the architect of most mosques in Karabkh. The mosques, which draw consideration with their architectural type and minarets, have been destroyed because of the Armenian invasion. Yukhari Govjar Agha Mosque, the place restoration works have been carried out in 2021, is on the checklist of historic and cultural monuments of nationwide significance.
The multi-ethnic and multicultural options of Azerbaijan had allowed all artefacts of non secular heritage to be represented within the area and its surrounding districts, together with, however not restricted to mosques, church buildings, monasteries, and temples – till 1992, when the territories have been occupied by the Armenian Armed Forces.
Karabakh Struggle
Throughout the First Karabakh Struggle within the late Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties, the area was occupied by Armenian Armed Forces and was below their management for almost three many years.
The occupation ended within the fall of 2020 after 44 days of intense clashes through the Second Karabakh Struggle (September 27 – November 9, 2020) when Azerbaijan reclaimed Shusha and a number of other different cities and settlements.
From the outset of the 44-day-long struggle, Azerbaijan’s army superiority was clear. Throughout the first couple of days, the Azerbaijani military managed to interrupt the defenses of the Armenian Armed Forces round Fuzuli and overcame the so-called “Ohanyan Line” thought-about to be one of many strongest fortications put in by Armenia’s military within the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
Furthermore, from the early days of this struggle, Azerbaijan demanded that Armenia should lastly withdraw its army forces from the territories, absolutely and unconditionally, and in accordance with the UN Safety Council Decision 853, situation a timetable for the de-occupation of Azerbaijani lands.
Of their joint article, titled “Assessing Broken Attributable to the Unlawful Actions of Armenia to Azerbaijan within the Liberated (Previously Occupied) Territories,” Javid Alyarli and Arzu Abbasova argue that for the reason that finish of the First Karabakh Struggle in 1994, Armenia has striven by means of all potential means to strengthen the outcomes of the illegal use of power and create a mechanism for benefiting politically, economically, and militarily from the previously occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
To that finish, a number of illegitimate actions have been carried out, starting from the unlawful settlement of Armenians and overseas nationals of Armenian origin in Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh area and its adjoining districts to unlawful restoration and development of financial infrastructure, exploitation of assets, in addition to the purposeful removing of the cultural id of Azerbaijan, they mentioned.
By highlighting the monetary parameters and authorized ramifications of the illegitimate actions, each authors discover that an underlying political motive was cementing the Armenian occupation and selling annexationism.
The settlement of overseas nationals of Armenian origin within the previously occupied territories on the expense of expelling round 750 thousand indigenous Azerbaijanis has induced Azerbaijan to allocate a big quantity of funds to make sure the social welfare of Internally Displaced Individuals (IDPs) since 1993.
Throughout all the interval of occupation, Armenia illegally used these territories for agricultural functions. In his in style handle on December 1, 2020, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev acknowledged that Armenia was rising wheat on tens of 1000’s of hectares of land within the districts of Agdam, Fuzuli, Jebrayil, and Zengilan.
Armenia harvested as much as 90 thousand tons of wheat per yr within the previously occupied territories, with solely a bit extra being produced in Armenia, at simply 100 thousand tons per yr.
The economic system of Azerbaijan was disadvantaged of profit from the wealthy agricultural assets of the previously occupied assets. The intermountain and foothill plains and plateaus appropriate for agriculture within the liberated territories will allow grain-growing; fodder manufacturing; viticulture; and tobacco, potato, and cotton rising, in addition to dairy and meat manufacturing.
Even through the destruction of Azerbaijan’s cultural heritage within the previously occupied territories, Armenia was promoting the Nagorno-Karabakh area of Azerbaijan as a “vacationer vacation spot” and organizing unlawful vacationer visits to propagate its subordinate separatist regime. On this regard, worldwide businesses have been recruited to encourage overseas nationals to journey to the area.
President Ilham Aliyev, who visited Aghdam, a previously occupied district, on November 22, 2020, illuminated the extent of destruction for the primary time by means of the lenses of native and worldwide media.
Worldwide journalists, together with a well known French photographer, Reza Deghati, described the district because the “Hiroshima of the 21st Century” after seeing the ruins.
Delegates noticed the extent of destruction and the ruins in some elements of Karabakh area and understood that regardless of the top of hostilities, the civilian inhabitants and army personnel of the nationwide military stay the victims of mines and booby traps set by Armenian models.
As well as, they argue that the Second Karabakh Struggle has modified the stability of energy within the South Caucasus.
*) Mohammad Anthoni is ANTARA Information Company’s journalist from 1990 to 2019.
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