Dmitriy Medvedev sends a message to the Baku International Humanitarian Forum

Dmitriy Medvedev sends a message to the Baku International Humanitarian Forum

Humanitarian cooperation plays an important stabilizing role in present-day world, President Dmitriy Medvedev has announced.

'It (humanitarian cooperation) contributes to sustainable development, positively impacts the relationship between two countries, and permeates almost every sphere of human activity from economics, science and culture, to legal policy and security issues,' Dmitriy Medvedev said in his message to the Baku International Humanitarian Forum read out by Chief of Staff of Presidential Administration of Russia Sergey Narishkin.

The International Humanitarian Forum titled "XXI century: Hopes and Challenges" opened in Gulustan Palace in Baku on Monday.

The Russian President notes that "humanitarian cooperation is rightly called soft power, as it helps to remove barriers in a dialogue of civilizations, uniting nations and peoples based on values ​​of fairness and tolerance, solidarity and mutual respect."

Medvedev adds that the need for humanitarian touch in international relations is becoming more visible in recent years.

"New inter-state mechanisms, which are example of effective cooperation of creative elites, are being created and of course, community initiatives and movements that have made significant contributions to formation of a new humanitarian space play a special role. I am sure that the Baku Forum will take its rightful place among them," Medvedev noted in his message.

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