{"id":259452,"date":"2022-10-26T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/?p=259452"},"modified":"2022-10-26T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:07:11","slug":"costing-more-than-200-thousand-azn-congress-of-the-azerbaijan-writers-union-starts-in-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/costing-more-than-200-thousand-azn-congress-of-the-azerbaijan-writers-union-starts-in-baku\/","title":{"rendered":"Costing more than 200-thousand AZN, Congress of the Azerbaijan Writers&#8217; Union starts in Baku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Writers criticize the high-cost of the event.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 13th Congress of the Azerbaijan Writers&#8217; Union (AWU) has begun in Baku. The event is being held at the Academic National Drama Theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the invitation of the Union, more than twenty guests from Turkey, Russia, Lithuania, Israel, Pakistan, Georgia, Germany, Iraq, Belarus and Iran are participating in the congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The congress was scheduled to be held on September 30, 2022, but it was later postponed. AWU chairman, people&#8217;s writer Anar Rzayev justified the delay of the congress with a lack of funds. Because of that, Rzayev appealed to the country&#8217;s leadership to hold the congress. As a result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/yazicilar-birliyinin-qurultayi-baslayib\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the state donated<\/a> 203.6 thousand AZN for the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This allocation of funds was not positively perceived by the writers&#8217; community in the country. 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He believes that the AWU is a past structure, and the institution is no longer needed, since &#8220;the Congress held is as insignificant for the progressive literary environment as the kolkhoz meeting held in some remote village of Gadabay about thirty years ago&#8221;. He thinks the structure of the event and the leadership of the AWU are a inheritance from the Soviet past of the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The congress of the Azerbaijan Writers&#8217; Union is convened every five years.\u00a0The congress was last held in 2014 and Anar Rzayev was elected as the chairman.\u00a0He has been the chairman of the Union since 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers criticize the high-cost of the event. 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