Rotary Club of St. Simons Island
Dec. 17, 2024
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Rotarian Bahram Atabeyli, president of Baku International Rotary Club spoke to Rotary Club of St. Simons Island about efforts to achieve sustainable peace in the Caucasus region; and Rotary’s efforts to build peace with Rotary friendships and humanitarian service projects with support from the Rotary Foundation.
During his years in Azerbaijan, Bahram has been involved in different national and international strategic projects and observed the clear will of the top Azerbaijan government to proceed as EU has done. He discussed both the Azerbaijan’s concept for a sustainable peace development in the region and the Baku Rotary Concept for Promoting Peace. The core concept to promote peace is to build stability and prevent future conflicts in the Caucasus region by integrating and reenforcing business cooperation between countries. This was the idea behind the European Union (EU) after World War II which works quite well. Caucasus region includes Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. People living in the region are called “Caucasians”.
Rotary Clubs of St. Simons Island and Baku International are working together on a Rotary global grant project to improve computer education of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Beylagan district, Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan has million IDPs and refugees, as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Bahram was confident that our Global Grant project supported by the Rotary Foundation will provide a platform to advance Rotary International and Rotary Foundation’s plans to build membership and develop new Rotary Clubs in the Caucasus region.
Submitted by
Hamsa Thota
DG 2017-18
DRFC 2020-2025
RID 6920