Baku is hosting the first meeting of MGIMO graduates. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is attending the meeting. High-ranking officials from Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Cuba, Korea, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam are taking part in the talks, ITAR-TASS reports.
Some of the highlights will be the attendance of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO and ISESCO Mehriban Aliyeva, Ukrainian Vice Premier Constantine Grishchenko, Slovakian Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak, Moldavian Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Iurie Leanca, Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Yerlan Abdylbayev and Russian TV celebrity Xenia Sobchak.
Over 400 people from 30 countries are attending it. MGIMO President Anatoly Torkunov said that they will discuss values, energy, ecology, sustainable development, civil institutions, media space and business.
He read out a letter sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin to participants in the forum. The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Constantin Kosachyov, read out a letter from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
MGIMO will mark its 70th anniversary in 2014. It has 8 faculties and 6 institutes with about 6,000 students from Russia and 64 foreign states. It teaches 53 foreign languages – a world record.
