President Ilham Aliyev received FFEU’S President Marc Schneier

CBC
By Bakhtiyar Hasanov
October 8, 2018

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received President of the US-based Foundation for Ethnic Understanding Marc Schneier.

Marc Schneier recalled his meetings with President Ilham Aliyev in Baku and in the US.

The sides hailed all conditions created for peaceful coexistence of representatives of different nations and ethnic groups, including the Jewish community in Azerbaijan, underlining their active involvement in the country`s public life.

The successful development of bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and the US was pointed out, the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding`s contribution to this relationship was noted during the meeting.

The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding is a not-for-profit organization based in New York that focuses on improving Muslim–Jewish relations and black–Jewish relations. FFEU was founded in 1989 by Rabbi Marc Schneier and theatrical producer and director Joseph Papp.

In 2007, the Foundation began its program in Muslim–Jewish Relations and has since hosted the First National Summit of Imams and Rabbis, two European conferences of Muslim and Jewish Leaders, three Missions of Muslim and Jewish Leaders to Washington D.C.,and has held the annual program “The Weekend of Twinning” each November since 2008.

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