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.

Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture and ICESCO have agreed on launching a joint startup project as another area of ​​cooperation in the field of culture.

As part of his visit to Azerbaijani territories liberated from the Armenian occupation in the 44-day war between September 27 and November 10, 2020, a delegation led by ICESCO Director-General Salim bin Mohammed AlMalik has visited Fuzuli region to familiarize themselves with the consequences of destructions inflicted on the country's historical and cultural heritage by the Armenian armed forces, Azertag reported on January 12.

Director General of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) Salim AlMalik will visit Azerbaijan on January 11, a source in the organization's head office told Trend.

The level of religious tolerance in Azerbaijan is much higher than in France and other Western countries, former ISESCO Director General Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri believes, Trend reports.

The Azerbaijan Culture Ministry has appealed to UNESCO and ISESCO amid Armenian vandalism.