President Aliyev: Consistent policy pursued by Azerbaijan aimed at ensuring equal rights, opportunities for women

  30 May 2018    Read: 4521
President Aliyev: Consistent policy pursued by Azerbaijan aimed at ensuring equal rights, opportunities for women

Consistent policy pursued by Azerbaijan is aimed at ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women, says a congratulatory letter of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to the participants of the 5th Women’s Forum, dedicated to the centenary of granting suffrage to Azerbaijani women.

The letter was read out at the forum by Head of the Department for Humanitarian Policy Issues of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Farah Aliyeva.

“Dear participants of the forum! Dear women! I cordially congratulate you on the opening of the 5th Azerbaijani Women’s Forum,” the Azerbaijani president said in his message. “I wish you all robust health, happiness and success."

"The holding of the forum in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic is rather symbolic. Having obtained the right to elect and be elected long before the women of many advanced countries during the period of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, which was the first democratic republic in the Muslim East, that Azerbaijani women began to actively participate in the socio-political, socio-economic, scientific and cultural life of the country,” says the letter.

“They have worked hard, particularly, in the field of creating education, healthcare and culture systems based on modern principles, they have passed a path full of achievements,” President Aliyev said.

“The fact that the first steps in a number of spheres have been taken by Azerbaijani women among the women of the East is the result of the traditional great respect shown for them in our society, creation of the necessary conditions for the implementation of their knowledge and abilities,” said the letter.


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