Unesco s activities for the protection of national spiritual values (on the material of Azerbaijani culture and folk art)

This work is dedicated to an important and relevant topic for Azerbaijani cultural studies and political science. This study briefly reveals the essence of the basic concepts included in the main functions of UNESCO, using some specific examples to show the role of the major international organization for the preservation and multiplication of aesthetic values, which is the treasury of national culture and folk art. It follows from the materials of the articles stating that the activity of UNESCO to protect cultural property as objects of the world scale begins with its modernization. In generally, this activity is covered by a number of member countries of the Organization. However, both in Russian and English, it is mainly recorded in the resolutions of Summits or Conferences. In them, first, purely theoretical material noticeably prevails over specific facts. Secondly, there is very little information directly in these areas. The following work is intended to fill this gap to a certain extent. In this regard, the following objective is set: accumulating the most striking examples of UNESCO s relations with the Republic, to show its purposeful work in the field of culture and art. A differentiation and unification of currently available information on the stated issue partially helps to achieve the goal. The focus is made on several focal points. Namely, under the flagship of UNESCO, taking into account the resolutions adopted at the Conferences, the cultural policy in modern Azerbaijan covers such areas as the maintenance and development of museums, Houses of Culture in the regional centers of the republic, replenishment of the H.A. Aliyev Foundation with new materials or exhibits, restoration work related to the restoration of antiquities both in the capital and some cities of the republic. Some of the objects discussed in the article are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. In addition, there are such arts in which Azerbaijan at the turn of the 20(th) -21(st) centuries has firmly gained popularity all over the world.