Taliban and Azerbaijan Officials Discuss Expanding Cultural Cooperation

Abdulrahman Tayyebi, deputy minister for culture and arts at the Taliban-run Ministry of Information and Culture, met with Ilham Muhammadov, Azerbaijan’s ambassador in Kabul, to discuss expanding cultural cooperation, preserving and restoring historical monuments, and exchanging artistic experience.

According to the Taliban-run Ministry of Information and Culture, the meeting focused on holding joint art exhibitions, exchanging artists and cultural delegations, cooperation between museums and art galleries, developing traditional arts and handicrafts, and digitising historical documents and manuscripts.

At the meeting, the Azerbaijani ambassador stressed the shared historical and cultural background of the two countries and invited Tayyebi to attend the seventh International Conference on Cultural Dialogue. The conference is scheduled to be held in Baku later this month, and Tayyebi accepted the invitation.