A meeting of the Board of Trustees of Baku International Multiculturalism Center was held. The meeting was attended by members of the board and employees of BIMC. Academician Kamal Abdulla, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Multiculturalism Center, who opened the meeting with his opening speech, congratulated the meeting participants on the occasion of the New Year 2022 and conveyed his good wishes and expressed his views on the activities of Multiculturalism Center for the last year. The academic noted that Azerbaijani multiculturalism, which was brought to the political level by National Leader Heydar Aliyev in the 90s of the last century, and further developed by President Ilham Aliyev and raised to the level of state policy, sets important tasks for Baku International Multiculturalism Center, which was created for this purpose. The Center is one of the main executive bodies of the state policy of multiculturalism. This policy also plays an important role in the preservation and development of the culture and traditions of various peoples, confessions, who have been living together in peace and tranquility in Azerbaijan for centuries. All conditions have been created so that the national and religious communities, constantly surrounded by the care and protection of our state, can freely organize their activities. The fact that different peoples here consider Azerbaijan as their native land showed itself again in the 44-day Patriotic War, and the unification of all peoples around one fist was one of the main factors that ensured our victory.

       At the meeting, the executive director of Multiculturalism Center Ravan Hasanov presented the report on the activities of the Center for 2021 to the attention of the members of the Board and participants of the meeting. R. Hasanov noted that despite the difficulties of the pandemic, Multiculturalism Center spent the last year quite efficiently and successfully. Thus, international scientific conferences and round tables were organized inside and outside the country, classes were held in 24 prestigious foreign universities of 46 countries within the framework of the project of teaching the subject of Azerbaijani multiculturalism, which is one of the main directions of the Center, 9 books were prepared and published in Azerbaijani, Russian, English, Udi, Talysh, Kurdish and Lezgi languages.

       Members of the Board of Trustees spoke and expressed their opinion on the report. Etibar Najafov, a member of the Board, the chief adviser of the Department of Humanitarian Policy, Diaspora, Multiculturalism and Religious Affairs of the Presidential Administration, highly evaluated the activity of the Center for the last year and emphasized the importance of successfully organizing scientific conferences both within the country and abroad within the framework of the pandemic. Board member, chairman of the religious community of European Jews, Alexander Sharovsky, spoke about the high level of activities of the BIMC in relation to national and religious communities in 2021. Firangiz Alizadeh, member of the board and chairman of the Union of Composers of Azerbaijan, highly valued the activities of the BIMC for the last year and said that she is confident of successful cooperation in 2022, which President Ilham Aliyev declared "the year of Shusha". F. Alizade also proposed to set aside a special place for music festivals with the participation of various national minorities in the current year's work plan and to organize events in this direction.

       Then the chairman of the Board of Trustees, academician Kamal Abdulla noted that it is very important to continue a number of directions formed in the Center based on the recommendations of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, taking them as a tradition. This includes teaching the subject of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism both abroad and in our country, International Multiculturalism summer and winter schools, and studying the historical and cultural heritage of Caucasian Albania. In the end, the executive director of Baku International Multiculturalism Center Ravan Hasanov presented the activity plan of the Center for 2022. The members of the Center's Board of Trustees expressed a number of suggestions for the successful implementation of the current year.