February 20, participants of the XIII International Winter School of Multiculturalism "Unity in Cultural Diversity: on the Example of Azerbaijan" organized by the Baku International Center for Multiculturalism met the Chairman of the State Committee on Religious Associations (SCRA) Mubariz Gurbanli.

The participants honored the memory of those who lost their lives in the earthquake in Turkiye with a minute of silence.

Mubariz Gurbanli noted the importance of the project in terms of visual introduction of Azerbaijan’s model of tolerance, propaganda and promotion of those values worldwide. Tolerance is one of the priorities of the State’s religious policy that laid down by the national leader Heydar Aliyev and successfully continued by President Ilham Aliyev. Preservation, development, promotion and campaigning of millennia-old traditions of tolerance of our people nationwide and worldwide stand among the key targets of the religious policy of the state. Azerbaijan has created equal conditions for representatives of all religions and has been taking necessary measures in order to ensure that they live in accordance with their faith and beliefs. Maximum use of peacemaking, dialogue and cooperation possibilities among religions has been significance. Azerbaijan has actively involved in the process and has become a driving force for interreligious and intercultural dialogue, the Chairman has stressed

Questions have been answered addressed by the Winter School participants from different countries.

The XIII International Winter School of Multiculturalism, dedicated to the “Year of Heydar Aliyev”, will last until February 26. 30 students from leading universities of countries such as Azerbaijan, Turkey, Brazil, Romania, Germany, Palestine, Russia, the USA, Georgia, Pakistan, Iraq, Bulgaria, Mozambique, Central African Republic, Syria, Sri Lanka, China and Japan attend the XIII International Winter School of Multiculturalism.