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Baku, November 20 AzerTAc

“Efforts to educate the German public on the Azerbaijani realities must be stepped up further.” It was stressed at the meeting held November 20 between the head of the department of history of Azerbaijan at the Humboldt University of Berlin, professor Eva Maria Auch and Director General of AzerTAc Aslan Aslanov.
Discussions at the meeting revolved around establishment of cooperation between AzerTAc and history of Azerbaijan department at the Humboldt University of Berlin, prospects for joint activities to raise awareness of the German public about Azerbaijani realities.
Eva-Maria Auch was participant of the international conference entitled “Achievements and prospects for cooperation of NGO,” held in Baku with assistance of the NGO State Support Council under President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. She noted she was many times in Baku in 90s of the last century when Azerbaijan was in an information blockade and her cooperation with AzerTAc began then.

The Professor from Germany suggested holding an event marking the 95th anniversary of AzerTAc at the University of Humboldt. She expressed assurance that it will arouse great interest of German students studying the history of Azerbaijan.

Director General Aslan Aslanov thanked Auch for her efforts to bring the Azerbaijani realities to the notice of the German public. He underlined the importance of development of cooperation between AzerTAc and the University of Humboldt.

He pointed out that AzerTAc actively cooperates with the German DPA agency within the European Alliance of News Agencies.

Aslanov pointed out that creation of the department of history of Azerbaijan at the University of Humboldt is an important event. He noted that AzerTAc`s archives are always open to the students of the department.

The sides also discussed the conduct of seminars, trainings, master classes to improve German language proficiency of the AzerTAc`s German service desk employees.

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