Baku hosts symposium "Energy Exporters: Politics, Society, Economics" - PHOTOS

The Azerbaijani Diplomatic Academy (ADA) plans to admit students to the BA courses in the coming years, ADA Rector and Deputy Foreign Minister Hafiz Pashayev told reporters.

The State Students Admission Commission (SSAC) will conduct the first phase of exams for the master's degree in higher educational institutions and the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy on the MBA and TEMPUS international programs on Dec. 19, the SSAC reported.

So far, 424 applications were submitted to compete for 273 sits. As many as 360 applicants have appealed for MBA studies, 64 for TEMPUS and 123 - for MA at the ADA.

The applications were submitted in an online mode form from Nov. 26 to Dec.4 and then forwarded to the commission.

Pashayev said a new building for the ADA is being constructed. It will be put into exploitation in two years.

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No action by Armenia can make Turkey to speed up ratification of the protocols, former Adviser to U.S. President Frederick Starr said.

"To sign a piece of paper is an easy part of the process," Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Starr said.

"It is much more difficult to reach a national consensus."

Given the difficult situation in the domestic politics in Turkey and Armenia, Starr does not believe in easy solution of the problem.

"Only philosopher and psychiatrist may understand internal policy of Turkey and Armenia related to protocols," Starr said.

"Signing of the protocols is a complicated process in both countries," he added.

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The symposium is held to increase knowledge about Azerbaijan in the world scientific communities, to establish links between the Azerbaijani and foreign scholars, to enhance relations to implement educational reforms in Azerbaijan.

Doctors of philosophic sciences and people working for doctor's degree of Azerbaijan and other countries are attending the symposium.

During the event, twenty young Azerbaijani scholars, including those studying in doctorate of prestigious European and U.S universities, will discuss the distinguishing features of energy exporting countries.

In his opening speech, U.S. Dr. Frederick Starr stressed the role of the ADA.

"I admire the work of the Diplomatic Academy not only in Azerbaijan but throughout the region and the world," the Johns Hopkins University Professor Starr said.

He said that ADA plays a role of a mediator and a peculiar brain in the region in exchange of scientific ideas and experiences, which is very important.

/Trend News/

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