Allahashukur Pashazade awarded “130 years of Yekaterinburg Eparchy” medal
Chairman of the Caucasian Muslim Board Sheikh-ul-Islam
Allahashukur Pashazade has been handed over “130 years of
Yekaterinburg Eparchy” medal during a meeting with Metropolitan
Kirill of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye.
Pashazade highlighted “friendly and good neighbor” relations
between Azerbaijan and Russia.
“Azerbaijan and Russia are bound together by political,
economic, cultural and spiritual ties.,” he noted.
Pashazade recalled his meetings with Patriarch Kirill of
Moscow.
He later spoke of “state-religion relations in Azerbaijan, saying
the country has ancient religious tolerance traditions.
“Representatives of various confessions have lived in the
country in peace over the centuries,” he stressed.
Metropolitan Kirill, in turn, said he believes in peaceful
settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
AzerTac state news agency reported.
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