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BAKU - Mankind is facing challenging trials as it grapples with such problems as the economic crisis and grave crimes, Azerbaijani Parliament Speaker Ogtay Asadov has said.
Asadov told a conference of parliament chairmen in Geneva that the world is faced with the financial downturn, terror, aggressive separatism, trafficking in humans and drugs, climate change, challenges with food and energy security. These serious problems, he said, can be resolved only by joint efforts of world countries.
"To ward off the mentioned challenges, we bear both individual responsibility as countries and collective responsibility as the world community," the Azerbaijani speaker said.
Asadov stressed the particular importance of inter-parliamentary cooperation and parliamentary diplomacy "as its new qualitative stage".
The three-day World Conference of Speakers of Parliament concluded with the adoption of a statement following the discussions.*