On October 19-21, days of culture and literature of Azerbaijan were held in the cities of Bukhara, Navoi and Samarkand. In this regard, a delegation led by the deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ganira Pashayeva and the director of the Azerbaijan Cultural Center named after Heydar Aliyev Samir Abbasov visited the Samarkand State University...

    - Days of Azerbaijani culture and literature are being held in cooperation with the ministries of culture of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, - says Samir Abbasov. - Samarkand is a dear and noble, very valuable city for us. We have been holding a number of international conferences, concert programs, and important events here. We are especially pleased that the National Cultural Center of Azerbaijan is located in Samarkand. Samarkand State University is our permanent partner. As a proof of this, we can see that the Azerbaijani cultural center is operating at SamSU... Today is a big holiday for the Uzbek people. On this occasion, I congratulate the Uzbek people...

    - We are a strong nation with a common language, culture, religion, and history, - says Ganira Pashayeva, deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan. - We can know the friendship between the two nations as the great poets Nizami Ganjavi, Alisher Navoi, Muhammad Fuzuli. Among these Turkic peoples, the tradition of mentor-discipleship has been preserved until now... At the SCO summit held in Samarkand, Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Ilhom Aliyev also communicated freely without a translator... Do not touch the peace of our countries and our people...

    Also, the book presentation of writer Ganira Pashayeva "Addim-addim Özbǝkistan" (Uzbekistan step by step) was held...

    At the end of the event, Ganira Pashayeva presented her books to the students of Samarkand State University...

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