Moscow is hosting a CIS youth forum of public diplomacy today. Farit Mukhametshin, head of the Federal Agency for the CIS, Compatriots Living Abroad and Humanitarian Cooperation, opened the forum.
A correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza reported that Andrey Kortunov, President of the New Eurasia Fund, Polad Bulbul ogly, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia, Ramzan Abdulatipov, a member of Russian parliament, and Andrey Shvedov, Deputy Director of the First Department of CIS States, made speeches at the forum. A Russian diplomat noted the need for promotion of Eurasianism.
Bulbul ogly noted in his speech that it is the first youth forum to allow formation of dialogue and communication on all the CIS territory. He underlined that it is the main path towards friendship of CIS peoples.
Abdulatipov said that the post-Soviet space is undergoing ethnocratization. Russia was affected by the tendency too. Taking such a path would end all fruitful cooperation between CIS peoples and states. The USSR was against the process, but today the countries are degrading, he believes.
The main goals for discussions between young people are modern challenges and public youth diplomacy, main trends for cooperation of youth organization on the post-Soviet space, advanced methods and technologies of public diplomacy and social obligations.
Vestnik Kavkaza reported earlier that the forum is held within the framework of the assembly of CIS leaders in Moscow. Delegations consist of youth public organizations, members of unions of writers and artists, leader of youth parties, teachers and writers, journalists and historians, specialists in culture and cultural heritage. Students from the MGIMO, NIU, VSE will meet.
Attendants will visit the most significant Moscow museums, the Golden Ring and Ryazan. They will visit the SEXTON bike center and the Rossiyski Podarok cultural center.
The program will be concluded with performances at the Theatre named after Pokrovsky, where Farit Mukhametshin will round up the visit.
