JHU SAIS to Host Forum With Ambassador of Azerbaijan

The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will hold a forum, "A Farewell Address From the Ambassador of Azerbaijan," on Wednesday, 06/28 at 5 p.m.

At this forum hosted by the SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI), Hafiz Pashayev, ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States, will deliver his farewell address, having served since 1993 as the country's first ambassador to the United States. The third longest-serving ambassador in Washington, he has amassed a broad range of impressions of both the evolving role of Azerbaijan and the Caucasus in world diplomacy and of the peculiarities of the American political process as it affects this region.

Steven Mann, principal deputy assistant secretary of State for South and Central Asia Affairs, will deliver a brief response to the ambassador's remarks.

The event, free and open to the public, will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the school's Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to CACI at 202.663.7721 or caci2@mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu.

Members of the media who want to cover this event should contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Public Affairs Office at 202.663.5626 or fneuringer@jhu.edu.