The Georgian fund of strategic and international researches at support of F. Ebert Fund and the International Development Agency of Canada organized on November, 19-20th in Tbilisi the international conference «Caucasus in the XXI Century: the Look in the Future».
Representatives of the Transcaucasian countries took part in the work of the conference — Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan (separately — Mountain Karabakh) as well as republics of Northern Caucasus: Dagestan, Ingushetia, Northern Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Circassia, Adygeya, legal expert organizations and research centers of Russia, Canada, the USA, Germany, Israel and some other countries.
«The new thing of this conference, — considered the chairman of the social movement of Karachaevo-Circassia «Circassian congress » Beslan Mahov who participated in the action, — is that owing to it after a long break contacts between Georgian and Adygeyan communities took place». And now, as he said, a hope for renewal of the former cultural cooperation between Adygeyan regions of Northern Caucasus and Tbilisi appeared. «About it, — noted Mahov, — it was not spoken at the conference but in its corridors. And whether the former level of such cooperation is reached, time will tell».
