Baku / 02.03.19 / Turan: The Ministry of Culture and the Presidential Administration will be entrusted to study and analyze all the requests and appeals made at the meeting with cultural figures. They will be issued as a program and gradually resolved, President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday, summing up the meeting with a large group of cultural figures.
Note that the requests were mainly material in nature - salaries, apartments, project support, etc.
Aliyev also spoke of the need to build housing for young cultural figures and their support from the state.
Aliyev reacted positively to the proposal to streamline television programs and create Art Councils on TV channels to control the quality and content of the programs.
He confirmed the state"s readiness to raise salaries for theater workers and provide material and technical support to all theaters in the country. Aliyev also supported the proposal for the state to finance the filming of feature films and to establish a monument to the patron of the arts Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev in Baku.
Aliyev welcomed the idea of creating a single central region of Baku, uniting 3-4 districts. -02D-
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