02 April 2019 - Minister of Internal Affairs of Montenegro Mevludin Nuhodžić is participating in the 5th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue "Building Dialogue into Action against Discrimination, Inequality and Violent Conflict", which is being held in Baku on 2 and 3 May 2019.
As stated by the official UNESCO report, the Forum is organized under the patronage of H.E. Mr Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in cooperation with Task Force members: UNESCO, the UN Alliance of Civilizations, the UN World Tourism Organization (WTO), the Council of Europe and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO). Expected participants include heads of governments, ministers, heads of various international organizations, senior policymakers, cultural professionals, goodwill ambassadors, experts, journalists, practitioners, prominent intellectuals and activists.
The Forum will examine the critical role of Intercultural Dialogue as an actionable strategy for building human solidarity and helping localities counter the violence and discrimination in diverse communities.
The Forum aims to be an international platform to enable and encourage people, countries, and organizations to advance concrete actions to support diversity, dialogue and mutual understanding as foundations for sustainable peace and inclusive development.
This edition of the Forum seeks to serve as a comprehensive platform to better understand the drivers and benefits of intercultural dialogue as an instrument for addressing some of the pressing challenges of our time, including rising discrimination, growing inequalities and increasingly prevalent violent conflict. In doing so, it hopes to catalyse impactful collaborative actions, the implementation of which will be supported in the two years leading up to the next Forum.
During the first day of the World Forum, Minister Nuhodžić has met with the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ramil Usubov and head of the State Migration Service Vusal Huseynov.
