Mikheil Saakashvili becomes member of Nizami Ganjavi Int'l Center
By Jamila Babayeva
Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili has become a member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center.
Currently, the number of former heads of state joining the center is 14, the center reported.
In November 2013, former president of Romania Emil Constantinescu (1996-2000), former Serbian President Boris Tadic (2004-2012), former President of Estonia Arnold Ruutel (2001-2006) and former Latvian president Valdis Zatler (2007-2011) joined the center.
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.