Azerbaijan`s Foreugn Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is expected to participate at the International Bertelsmann Forum (IBF) to be held in Berlin on September 22-24, 2006, the press-service of the Foreign Office told Trend today.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Romanian President Trojan Basesku, Bulgarian leader Georgy Pirvanov, as well as heads of the governments and states of a number of other European countries, their ministers, and representatives of their intellectual people are also expected to take part at the arrangement. The main aim of the forthcoming Forum is to support contacts in Europe. That is why one time two years, known representatives of the governments, business, cultural circles , and mass media meet to discuss the existing, forthcoming, and strategic issues of the European poliicy.
The Bertelsmann Fund prepares a strategic document on the existing development of Europe, including the legal settlement of the conflicts, as well as the global rivalry, and other aspects of the security policy.
The last Forum of the Fund were held under the name European Alternatives-Changes and Perspectives of the Expanding Europe in Berlin in 2004.
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