By Manal Abdel Fattah
Dr. Alkhan Polokhov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan in Cairo, received political writer Ahmed Al-Muslimani, former advisor to the President of the Republic and Secretary-General of the Union of Writers of Africa and Asia.
Al-Muslimani said in a statement issued by the Union: I was pleased to visit the ambassador of the friendly state of Azerbaijan, and to meet its prominent diplomatic and academic ambassador, Dr. Alkhan Polokhov, with the aim of strengthening relations between the Union of Writers of Africa and Asia and the circles of the cultural and intellectual community in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan has successfully led the Non-Aligned Movement in previous years, and is working hard to make the UN climate conference COP29 a success, which will be held in Azerbaijan in 2024, the year in which Egypt and Azerbaijan celebrate 30 years of diplomatic relations between Cairo and Baku.
The General Secretariat of the African and Asian Writers Union looks forward to consolidating literary, scientific and intellectual relations with relevant Azeri cultural institutions and forums.
It is noteworthy that the Union of Writers of Africa and Asia was founded in 1958 in Sri Lanka, and its founding conference was held in Turkey, and Latin America joined it after the Union’s conference in Vietnam in 2013, and when the writer Youssef Al-Sibai, the former Egyptian Minister of Culture, assumed the leadership of the Union, he moved its headquarters to Cairo.
The Union witnessed a major role for a number of figures of thought and culture, led by the writer and writer Lotfi Al-Khouly, who assumed the position of Secretary-General of the Union after Youssef Al-Sibai. Among its intellectual elite were the writer Abdul Rahman Al-Sharqawi, the poet Mahmoud Darwish, the writer Edward Al-Kharrat, and a number of knowledge leaders on both continents.
