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The Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations and the UN Alliance of Civilizations has signed a cooperation agreement, the Sate Committee reported.

The cooperation and strategic partnership agreement was signed between the two parties during the annual high-level meeting of the UN Alliance of Civilizations Group of Friends held in New York.

The agreement was undersigned by UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser and by State Committee Chairman Elshad Iskandarov.

The document is expected to bring the cooperation between Azerbaijan and the UN Alliance of Civilizations to a new level, which is the highest platform on intercultural and inter-religious dialogue at the international level.

Addressing the event, Abdulaziz Al-Nasser described the agreement as high praise given by the international community to the exemplary level of tolerance in Azerbaijan, and stressed that this document opens a new page in cooperation between the two partners.

Under the agreement, the activity of the National Tolerance Center established jointly with the UN Alliance of Civilizations and the State Committee, as well as the spread of Azerbaijan's tolerance and multiculturalism model in the world will be supported.

Also, the photo exhibition "Azerbaijan - a space of tolerance", organized on the initiative of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation will be presented at the UN Alliance of Civilizations events, as well as at a forum which will be held in 2014 in Indonesia.

According to the document, a Summer school, which will be organized in Azerbaijan next year, as well as the "Photolerance" photo contest are among the joint projects.