The project coordinator and BISC president, Ayseba Umutlu gave this information. Firstly, she talked about the financial support from the Council of State Support to Non \u2013 Governmental Organizations under the President of Republic of Azerbaijan, the technical support of IEPF, and also added that participants were in Fizuly at the regional office of ANAMA: \u201cANAMA specialists shared about their activities in the region and importance of mine clearance actions. They showed mine clearance devices to students. Then we visited to memorial tomb of Sheikh Babi in Fizuly. Students were widely informed about this tomb that was built in the thirteen century\u201d.<\/p>\n
IEPF chairman Umud Rahimoghlu said that, they have been in Zovchiq \u2013 1settlement in Horadiz which was constructed by the order of Azerbaijan President: \u201cthe school meeting the requirement of modern standards raised big interest among students. Pupils and teachers of this school expressed their feelings about Armenia aggressions in western Azerbaijan during Azerbaijanis deportation from their motherland\u201d. There was an interesting case while speaking with one of the pupils. Holding Azerbaijani flag, Iraqi youth asked a question to children who were born in tent camps, where their homes are. They all in unison shouted at the same time indicating captured Fizuli region \u2013 THERE! Abdulla asked the next question: \u201cWho will take this flag to there?\u201d This time pupils shouted more loudly \u2013 ME! Their voice could be heard throughout the settlement. Everybody, including foreign students was flabbergasted.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon we have also been at Zovchig \u2013 2 settlements, said Umud Rahimoghlu: \u201cWe were at Zovchig \u2013 2 settlements in the afternoon. We divided students into 4 parts here and sent them to IDPs houses. They had a conversation almost 4 hours with the IDP families. Conversation was held with translations by the Azerbaijani members of BISC. Participants expressed their satisfaction with these conversations\u201d.<\/p>\n
At the end of the day students had a meeting with Deputy Chief Executive of Fizuli region -Shakir Haciyev. He gave important information about Fizuli region, Armenian aggression and the consequences all this. Afterwards, Shakir Haciyev responded to various questions from the foreign youths.<\/p>\n
Next foreign students will visit Alxanli village, which was completely destroyed by Armenians during the war; also Behmenli settlement, Beyleghan and Aghdam. Thereafter they will proceed to visit Tartar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
IEPF, Baku, 17 December, 2008 \u2013 It has been 2 days since 17 foreign students are in Karabakh within the project of Baku International Students Club (BISC) titled \u201cThe new approach to Refugee\/IDP problems\u201d under the motto \u201cBack to Motherland\u201d. It should be noted that, the paramount objective of this project is to inform foreign youths about the essence of Karabakh problem and consequences rising from this.
\n In the aftermath of this trip, the foreign youths will write articles about what they have heard and seen also basing on discussion with refugees and IDPs. Articles will comprise of Germany, France, China, Russia, Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt, Bangladesh, and Nigeria representatives that will be collected and published as a book at the end of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}