Nizami Ganjavi International Center
International Events
Attendees
Former Head of
States & Governments
President of Republic of Latvia (1999-2007),Co-Chair
Vice-President, World Bank 1992-2000, Co-Chair NGIC
President of Serbia (2004-2012)
President of Finland (2000-2012)
Secretary-General of the Arab League (2001-2011)
Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO
Chairperson of the Committee of Diaspora, Republic of Azerbaijan (2008-2018)
President of Croatia (2010-2015)
Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-2002)
President Republic of Bulgaria (2012-2017)
President Republic of Bulgaria (1997-2002)
President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (1988 – Present)
Under Secretary General of the United Nations (2007-2015)
Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia (2010-2012)
First Lady of Ukraine 2005-2010, President Ukraine 3000 Foundation
Senior Vice-President of Exxon Mobil (2000-2013)
Prime Minister of Belgium, 2008, 2009-2011
President of Montenegro (2003-2018)
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the world, the Nizami Ganjavi International Centre continues to express its heartfelt solidarity with all those affected and to call for more transnational cooperation. In addition, the members of the NGIC International Board of Trustees have been busy, each in their own country as well as inter-nationally, offering objective analyses of the world situation along with words of moral support and reassurance to distraught populations. They have also been intermediaries in the distribution of aid of various kinds to the vulnerable, both in Azerbaijan, the home country of NGIC, and in other countries, with concrete initiatives that respond to concrete needs and do so in an effective and timely manner.
JOINT STATEMENT BY LAUREATES & LEADERS FOR CHILDREN
We, the Laureates and Leaders for Children, call upon the world’s Heads of Government to demonstrate wise leadership and to urgently care for the impoverished and the marginalised. Decisions made by our leaders, actions taken by us and the discourses that ensue in the next few weeks will be crucial. They are going to shape the future of polity, economy, culture and morality.
Humanity today, in all its fragility, is searching for an effective and safe vaccine against COVID-19. It is our best hope of putting a stop to this painful global pandemic.
The communique from the G20 Extraordinary Leaders’ Summit on March 26, 2020, recognized the gravity and urgency of the entwined public health and economic crises, but we now require urgent specific measures that can be agreed on with speed and at scale: emergency support for global health initiatives led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and emergency measures to restore the global economy. Both require world leaders to commit to funding far beyond the current capacity of our existing international institutions.
An Open Letter to the UN, G-20, and National Governments on COVID-19 and Agriculture for Food and Nutrition Security
We are writing to call for a set of internationally coordinated, locally relevant actions to address the medium- and longer-term impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture, food, and nutrition security. The current global health crisis has disrupted supply chains and laid bare the need to address the inter-related challenges of hunger, malnutrition, climate change, and environmental degradation and has emphasized the need for concerted, proactive and collective actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN in 2015.
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