Azerbaijan, Baku, 14 May / Trend / The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, sent a congratulation message to the participants of the UNESCO Sub-Regional Conference in Support of Global Literacy entitled "Addressing Literacy Challenges in Europe with a sub-regional focus: Building Partnerships and Promoting Innovative Approaches" which commenced in Baku on 14 May.
"As to problems of education of more than one million refugees and IDPs ousted from their homelands as a result of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, they constantly are in the center of attention. I hope, that the questions connected with their education also will become object of discussion of your Conference," the letter says.
"Your Conference will, certainly, become a serious step directed on increase of the level of literacy in Europe, and also a new stage in the cause of achieving the purposes put forward in the strategic documents of UNESCO, related to education," mentioned by the message.