Baku to host fifth News Agencies World Congress in 2016
(AGI) Baku, Mar 3 - The fifth News Agencies World Congress(NAWC) will be held in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, in 2016.The meeting will be hosted by Azeri news agency AzerbaijanState Telegraph Agency (AzerTAc), which holds the presidencyuntil 2019. The announcement was made by the agency's directorgeneral, Aslan Aslanov, on the 95th anniversary of itsfounding. Azerbaijan was a rapidly evolving and tolerantcountry with a Muslim majority, in which religion and state arealways kept apart, Mr Aslanov said in an interview with AgenziaGiornalistica Italia (AGI) on the sidelines of a NAWC boardmeeting