First Vice President of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva makes a very important contribution to ensuring interethnic and interreligious understanding in Azerbaijan, Former Director-General of ISESCO, member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, Abdulaziz Altwaijri told Trend.

Azerbaijani Ambassador to Morocco Oktay Gurbanov has met with ICESCO Director General Salim M. AlMalik to discuss ICESCO's initiative to declare Shusha Asian region's Capital of Islamic Culture next year.

The Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) and the Azerbaijan National Commission for Education, Science, and Culture have discussed prospects of coooperation in science and technology.

The secretary-general of the Azerbaijan National Commission for ICESCO, Vasif Eyvazzadeh, has praised the country's cooperation with ICESCO (Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

Azerbaijan and Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) have set new prospects of cooperation and mutual support.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with Director General of Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) Salim bin Mohammed al-Malik, the press service of the Azerbaijani MFA told Trend.

ICESCO proposes to declare Azerbaijan’s Shusha as the capital of Islamic world. The initiative was announced at the press conference between ICESCO Director General Salim AlMalik and the Azerbaijan Culture Minister Anar Karimov.

The liberation of Azerbaijan’s land from occupation creates new opportunities for the regional development and boosts regional cooperation in the field of innovation, Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies Ramin Guluzade has said.

As part of his visit to Azerbaijan, ICESCO Director General Salim AlMalik has visited the country's leading museums.

President Ilham Aliyev has criticized Armenia’s destruction of Azerbaijani mosques in recently-liberated territories that had remained under Armenian occupation in the past three decades.