AZERI CULTURE AND TOURISM MINISTER ATTENDING CONFERENCE IN SLOVENIA

Vienna, November 7 (AzerTAc). Azerbaijan Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfaz Garayev is attending the Ministries conference entitled “rehabilitating our common heritage” in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The goal of the event is to review the results of the Ljubljana Process and its “Integrated Rehabilitation Project Plan and Survey of the Architectural and Archaeological Heritage”, which has been successfully carried out in the South East Europe.
The conference is also an opportunity for a transfer of experience and know-how from the beneficiaries` countries of the Ljubljana process (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia) to those countries participating in the Kyiv initiative (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova).
Participants are expected to adopt the Ljubljana declaration confirming the importance of experience gained from activities in South-East Europe, their individual and joint responsibility in preserving and promoting our common European cultural heritage. Representatives of the beneficiaries of the Ljubljana Process are also expected to sign a joint ministerial statement on the next phase of the process beyond 2010.
Representatives of countries participating in the Kyiv Initiative countries are expected to adopt the “Ministerial statement of the Black Sea beneficiaries and the South Caucasus beneficiaries on a Pilot Project on the Rehabilitation of Cultural Heritage in Historic Towns”, inspired by the experience of the Ljubljana process.
Azerbaijani Minister Abulfaz Garayev will deliver a speech at the event.