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By Nigar Orujova

Azerbaijani capital Baku will host a meeting to mull preparations for the Joint Societies Forum 2014 on September 4-6.

The gathering, Initiated by the Nizami Ganjavi International Centre and the Club of Madrid, will bring together heads of the Library of Alexandria, the Club of Rome, the World Academy of Science and Culture, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center of International Dialogue and Culture, and the Fund for Peace and Culture, as well as "Global Ethics".

The discussions in the Azerbaijani capital will also focus on the Millennium Development Programme 2015, a new paradigm of global development, inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue, as well as religious minorities and increasing participation of women in society.

The event will also be attended by the co-chairs of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, former President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Director of the Library of Alexandria Ismail Serageldin, and members of the leadership of the Center former President of Finland Tarja Halonen, Commissioner of the UNESCO/ITU Broadband Walter Fust, as well as the president of the Club de Madrid, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Wim Kok and the vice-presidents Jennifer M. Shipley, Jorge Quiroga and other members of the two organizations, the CGDC chairman Peter Stoyanov, President of the World Academy of Science and Culture, Ivo Slaus, and co-chair of the University of Georgia Giuli Alasania.

Further, meetings will also be held in Brisbone (Australia), Athens (Greece), Alexandria (Egypt) and Madrid (Spain) in the framework of the Joint Societies Forum 2014.

Nizami Ganjavi International Center with its head office in Azerbaijan's second largest city, Ganja, was established in September 2012 to increase awareness of the great works of Nizami Ganjavi, to help return his masterpieces to the homeland, to serve as a depository for Nizami's works, and to further develop the values embodied in his works through community engagement.

Nizami Ganjavi, the 12th century greatest representative of the Eastern Renaissance, displayed the quintessence of world literature and philosophy in his immortal work Khamsa (Five), via the aesthetic power of his art.