Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug.21 / Trend K.Zarbaliyeva /
The Permanent Committee for Youth in the Council of Europe (CE) will hold its summer school in Azerbaijan. 35 representatives of the CE member-countries, including Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Georgia and the Ukraine, will take part in the summer school to be held on Aug.25-28.
On the first day of the summer school the participants will be given information on Azerbaijan's youth policy along with activities and events held in Azerbaijan in the last 10-15 years. The first day of the summer school will also focus on presenting the strategies of the EU youth policy till 2020, the head of the Program Committee for Azerbaijan in the CE Permanent Committee for Youth and the representative of the Azerbaijani Youth and Sport Ministry in the committee, Farhad Hajiyev, told Trend on Aug.21.
The attendants also will be told about CE youth policy. Azerbaijan has been a member of this committee since 1997.
The ministry began to cooperate with this committee after it joined the EC cultural convention.
The main aim of the committee is to widen and determine the general areas of youth policies and exchange experiences.
The committee members are the representatives of the EC member countries' relevant agencies dealing with youth policy.
Azerbaijan has been in a leading position in cooperating with this committee during the last three years, Hajiyev added.
This is evidence that Azerbaijan's youth and youth organizations are developing as a part of the civil society and it is strengthening its international relations - the ministry supports them in everything, Hajiyev added.
The CE outlined human rights, international cultural dialogue and the social protection of the young as the main areas in youth policy in the next 10 years.
Azerbaijan's main priority is military-patriotic activities, Hajiyev said.
In Azerbaijan the 'youth age' is between 14 and 29 years of age. This consists of 2.6 million (32 percent) of Azerbaijanis.
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