Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sefik Dzaferovic are going to participate in the IX Global Baku Forum to be organized by Nizami Ganjavi International Center, Trend reports.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva have talked to the 8th Global Baku Forum's participants who visited Shusha, Azertag reported.

Azerbaijani people are overwhelmed with desire to restore Shusha, ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko told journalists during a visit to Shusha, Trend reports.

Participants of the 8th Global Baku Forum have visited Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha.

The last panel within the 8th Global Forum has been held in Shusha.

Holding such a significant event on a planetary scale as the VIII Global Baku Forum "The World after COVID-19" shows Azerbaijan's authority, which formulates global meanings, creates conditions and provides a platform for their analysis and thoughts on where and how humanity will move further, Editor-in-Chief of the authoritative Russian National Defense magazine, well-known military expert Igor Korotchenko told Trend.

Topics discussed at the Global Baku Forum to help solving problems, Co-Chair of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC) Ismail Serageldin said on the sidelines of the forum, Trend reports.

Europe did not live up to our hopes, ex-President of Moldova Petru Lucinschi said on the panel session on the topic "Eastern Partnership: What Is Potential?" within the framework of the VIII Global Baku Forum titled "The World after COVID-19", Trend reports.

Former Latvian President Valdis Zatlers has said that the EU can help Azerbaijan restore its territories liberated from Armenian occupation late last year.

Accession to the EU will restore stability in the Western Balkans, Ivo Josipovic, ex-president of Croatia, said during the panel session on topic “Assessing Western Balkans: The Way Forward” as part of the VIII Global Baku Forum under the motto "The World after COVID-19”, Trend reports.