Azerbaijan plays major role in maintaining stability in region, says Vaira Vike-Freiberga
By Trend
Azerbaijan plays a major role in maintaining peace and stability
in the region, said Vaira Vike-Freiberga, the former President of
Latvia, Co-Chair of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center.
"Azerbaijan occupies a crucially important geopolitical place in
the Caucasus and plays a major role in maintaining peace and
stability in the region," Vike-Freiberga told Trend.
She stressed that Azerbaijan, as an oil-producing country, has
directed its income from natural resources into visibly improving
its infrastructures and improving the welfare of its people.
Vike-Freiberga further highlighted the unique tolerant atmosphere
in Azerbaijan.
"As a largely Muslim country, Azerbaijan stands out for its ability
to maintain a secular state, where freedom of religion goes hand in
hand with tolerance and peaceful coexistence of different
confessions," she said.
Vike-Freiberga emphasized that along with its rapid and successful
modernization, Azerbaijan continues to make education a major
priority of the state.
"Thus the country ensures the ability of its population to adjust
to the demands of a rapidly changing world and to continue to
thrive in it," she concluded.
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