Azerbaijan joins Beijing Book Festival [PHOTO]
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By Laman Ismayilova
The Azerbaijani Embassy in China has arranged the country's stand at the 25th International Book Festival, which opened in Beijing.
The stand features 1,000 books and magazines that highlight the life and activity of national leader Heydar Aliyev, promote Azerbaijan's arts and culture, literature, carpet weaving tradition and tourism potential.
Moreover, the books provide an insight into the causes and consequences of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azertac reported. There are also encyclopedic publications about Azerbaijan in Chinese, Russian and English languages.
Asia’s largest book fair brings together 2,500 exhibitors from 89 countries and regions.
Of the 300,000 titles on exhibit, 10,000 were selected for display in a special area of influential books published in the past five years.
Oman, Azerbaijan and Ukraine attended Beijing Book Festival for the first time.
The Azerbaijani stand at the exhibition has aroused great interest of local and foreign visitors.
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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @Lam_Ismayilova
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