U.S. Department of State: Azerbaijani government actively promites religious tolerance

The report says the State Committee for Work with Religious Associations convened leaders of various religious communities on several occasions during the report period.

During the year, the SCWRS organized several seminars, conferences, and regional meetings on religious freedom and tolerance.

"The Fifth Islamic Conference of Cultural Ministers held in Tripoli in November 2007 proclaimed Baku the Islamic Cultural Capital for 2009. This bolstered renovation of a number of mosques throughout the city and Absheron Peninsula."

There were no reported cases of anti-Semitic incidents, the report said.

"In those areas of the country controlled by ethnic Armenian separatists, all ethnic Azeris have fled, and the mosques that were not destroyed remained inactive," the report said.