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A roundtable entitled "Humanitarian Aspect of Economic Progress" started as part of the 3rd Baku International Humanitarian Forum at the Hilton-Baku hotel on November 1, AzerTag state news agency reported.

The roundtable is co-chaired by rector of Azerbaijan State Economic State University, head of Parliament`s science and education standing committee Shamsaddin Hajiyev, director of Center for British Global Studies, professor of Warwick University Robert Skidelsky and honorable member of PACE Anatoly Rakhansky (Ukraine).

The speakers praised the Third Baku International Forum as "important event".

Baku International Humanitarian Forum is a high-profile global scientific and political platform for tackling the challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, holding dialogue, discussions and exchange of views on a wide range of issues of humanitarian cooperation. It is an annual event that brings together outstanding representatives of political, scientific and cultural elite of the world, including well-known statesmen, Nobel Prize winners in various fields of science and heads of influential international organizations.

President Aliyev and former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev initiated the Forum in 2010.

Representatives of natural, social sciences and humanities, as well as the cultural elite of the world who have set the ambitious task of forming a new humanitarian agenda with a view to further considering it on the worldwide scale are the organizers and participants of the forum.

With its rich traditions of cooperation among different cultures, civilizations and religions, Azerbaijan is the ideal venue for holding such events.