Presentation of IDEA Campaign held in House of Lords

An official reception has been held by member of the House of Lords Mohammed Sheikh in honor of Vice President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva for presenting IDEA international environmental campaign at the House of Lords of the UK Parliament. The presentation of IDEA campaign was opened by Executive Director of EcoMuslim ecological organization Omar Faruk.

Then, initiator of the campaign Leyla Aliyeva addressed the event. Aliyeva gave detailed information about environmental projects realized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and cooperation with UNDP within “Mobilizing Azerbaijani youth for Rio+20 Summit”.

Talking about the activities of volunteers in secondary schools, Aliyeva said: “We believe that ecological education should be conducted and taught to children since their early ages. Love to nature and importance of its protection should be perceived during the school years. Youths should understand the importance of ecological harmony since their childhood.

The main direction of my campaign is to highlight the role of early education in providing correct behaviors and actions of people for their mutual coexistence in environment.”

At the end of the reception, Leyla Aliyeva presented presents personifying Azerbaijan to lord Mohammed Sheikh.

The event involved British MPs, representatives of accredited diplomatic corpuses in the country, different ecological organizations, as well as Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Huseyngulu Bagirov, Vice-President on ecology of the Azerbaijani State Oil Company Rafiga Huseynzade, and representative of the Presidential Administration.