RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF RUSSIA AND SOUTH CAUCASIAN PEOPLES DISCUSSED PEACEMAKING IN REGION

The religious leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia discussed the peacekeeping in the Caucasus. As reported by Novosti Russian agency, Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin II, chairman of the Muslim Board of the Caucasus Allah-Shukur Pasha-zade, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II and Patriarch of all Georgia Ilia II participated in a meeting held in Svyato-Danilovsky cloister in Moscow today. It should be noted that the religious leaders of the peoples of the Caucasus are in Moscow to participate in the second CIS Inter-Religious Peacemaking Forum. The Forum aims at coordinating the activities of traditional religious organizations of the Commonwealth countries, strengthening interethnic and inter-religious peace, maintaining traditional spiritual values in the society and joint struggle against contemporary challenges, specifically, with terrorism.