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On February 20, 2024, in Baku will host a round table which will discuss the role of public diplomacy in the development of Russian-Azerbaijani relations. The event is supported by the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly.
Public diplomacy increasingly establishes itself as a dynamic sphere of world politics and plays a significant role in ensuring trust and mutual understanding between states and peoples.
Using the language of public diplomacy, it is easier to build bridges of mutual understanding, relying on deep roots and national traditions. Its effective implementation is intended to humanize international relations, since the multifaceted interaction of civil societies and cultures is the basis of diplomatic relations and friendship between peoples.
The emerging multipolar world must become a world of universal human unity, where the main people are the custodians of unshakable spiritual and moral values common to all humanity.
We need common international efforts in public diplomacy, which unites public opinion leaders, public experts, representatives of the cultural and humanitarian sphere and the business community, all people who care about the fate of the world.
Thanks to broad public participation, international discussion, and the search for common points of view, an initial comprehension takes place, allowing for the further formation of concepts and provisions acceptable to all mankind.
One of the projects in public diplomacy is the International Competition “Leader of Public Diplomacy”, which is implemented by the All-Russian public organization “Assembly of the Peoples of Russia”. The purpose of the competition is to identify and support Russian and foreign public leaders whose activities are aimed at developing public diplomacy, interethnic and interreligious peace and harmony, friendship and mutual understanding between peoples, and expanding the geography of interaction. Since 2022, the project has been implemented with the support of the Presidential Grants Foundation.
Participants in the International Competition “Leader of Public Diplomacy” in 2022 included representatives of the non-profit sector from 34 regions of Russia and 23 countries, including Azerbaijan, Turkey, Romania, Moldova, France, Canada, Italy, Mexico, India, Saudi Arabia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Israel, Serbia, Syria, etc. The Organizing Committee of the competition is also international. The official language of the competition is Russian. The winners were announced on December 8 in Perm as part of the Perm Open Forum of Friendship of Peoples and the IX All-Russian Forum of National Unity.
Participants in the II International Competition “Leader of Public Diplomacy” in 2023 included representatives of the non-profit sector from 24 regions of Russia and 17 countries - Germany, Italy, Spain, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Belarus, Abkhazia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Serbia, Egypt, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Indonesia. The winners were announced on December 12 in Moscow as part of the Catherine Forum.
The agenda of the International Round Table includes issues of popularization and further development of public diplomacy through modern mechanisms of cultural, humanitarian, scientific, educational and business cooperation, the role of public diplomacy in the development of Russian-Azerbaijani relations. The activities of public organizations in the development of bilateral relations will be reviewed and the best practices in bilateral Russian-Azerbaijani relations will be presented.
Round Table participants: representatives of government agencies, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, representatives of youth and national-cultural public associations, the scientific and educational community of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation, participants in the “Leader of Public Diplomacy” competition, experts in public diplomacy, media representatives.
The moderators of the dialogue will be: Svetlana Smirnova - First Deputy Secretary General - Head of the General Secretariat of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly, Chairman of the Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Russia, member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for Interethnic Relations and Zeini Rauf Khurshud ogly, Deputy Secretary General of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly, President of the National NGO Forum of Azerbaijan.
The International Round Table was supported by: The Representative Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in the Republic of Azerbaijan; the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on Issues of Nationalities; Commission of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation on Harmonization of Interethnic and Inter-Confessional Relations; All-Russian public movement “Co-creation of peoples in the name of life” (Senezh Forum).