Ordukhan Gahramanzada

Areas of work

Multilateral and intercultural dialogue

In­ter­na­tion­al ini­tia­tives at the Sec­re­tar­iat of the Baku Process, and speak­ing en­gage­ments at UN, OSCE and Coun­cil of Europe events.

  • Head of the International Initiatives Department at GUIDE (since 2026)
  • 7th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue: member of the organisation working group, lead coordinator of its first Youth Forum and coordinator of the Youth Dialogue segment (2026)
  • OIC Culture Festival: Baku Creative Week 2025: member of the organisation working group, contributed to the Baku Communiqué on Creative Industries
  • Turkic World Week (2026): member of the organisation working group
  • Official Youth Delegate to the 78th session of the UN General Assembly
  • Panellist at the Biennial Panel Discussion on the Right to Development, “35 years on: policy pathways to operationalising the right to development”, 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council
  • Three plenary addresses at the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference

Protection of cultural property

Focal point and expert of the Min­istry of Cul­ture on com­bat­ting il­lic­it traf­fick­ing of cul­tur­al prop­er­ty and on the pro­tec­tion of cul­tur­al prop­er­ty in the event of armed con­flict.

  • The Ministry's coordinator and expert for the 1970 and 1954 Conventions
  • Regular contribution to Azerbaijan's replies to UNESCO Secretariat questionnaires on the implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention and the 1970 Convention
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry and ICCROM
  • Coordinator designated by the Ministry of Culture for opinions and requests in the two International Court of Justice cases
  • Sessions of the committees of the 1954 and 1970 Conventions and of the ICPRCP at UNESCO Headquarters (2025–2026)

Youth leadership

Chair­ing the NAM Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion, lead­ing the ex­ec­u­tive work of the Azer­bai­jan Stu­dent Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tions' Union, sup­port­ing youth or­gan­i­sa­tions through grant fi­nanc­ing, and rep­re­sent­ing Azer­bai­jan on in­ter­na­tion­al youth plat­forms.

  • NAM Youth Network (2021–2022) and NAM Youth Organization (2022–2024): Chairperson
  • First Youth Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (Baku and Shusha, 2022) and the “Shusha Accord”: head of the organising committee
  • NAM Youth Organization: first briefing at UN Headquarters (2022)
  • First Regional Forum of NAM Youth for Latin America and the Caribbean, Caracas (2023)
  • Azerbaijan Student Youth Organizations' Union: Secretary-General (2021–2023), fostering the role of student youth organisations in implementing state youth policy across the regions
  • Youth Foundation of the Republic of Azerbaijan: grant support for more than 100 youth organisations (2024–2025)
  • National Assembly of Youth Organizations of the Republic of Azerbaijan: Board member (2020–2024)
  • Enactus Azerbaijan: National Program Director (2021–2023)
  • “Erasmus Student Network-Azerbaijan” Public Union: co-founder and President (2019–2021)

In President Ilham Aliyev's speeches

  • We ini­ti­at­ed the cre­ation of the Par­lia­men­tary Plat­form, which was suc­cess­ful­ly es­tab­lished, and the Youth Plat­form. These are two im­por­tant el­e­ments of Azer­bai­jan’s legacy. We also worked ac­tive­ly on the in­sti­tu­tion­al de­vel­op­ment of the Non-Aligned Move­ment and its po­ten­tial trans­for­ma­tion into an or­ga­ni­za­tion.

    International Forum themed “Facing the New World Order” was held at ADA University with participation of Ilham Aliyev · · Source: president.az
  • At the same time, we try to strength­en the in­sti­tu­tion­al seg­ment of the Move­ment. Based on our ini­tia­tive, the Par­lia­men­tary Net­work was cre­at­ed for the first time, the youth and women plat­forms were cre­at­ed. So, these ini­tia­tives are all the legacy of Azer­bai­jan.

    Ilham Aliyev attended opening of the 6th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue in Baku · · Source: president.az
  • The NAM Par­lia­men­tary Net­work and the NAM Youth Or­gan­i­sa­tion were es­tab­lished at Azer­bai­jan's ini­tia­tive.

    To the participants of the Non-Aligned Movement Conference on Advancing the Rights and Empowerment of Women · · Source: president.az
  • Fur­ther­more, the Shusha ac­cords es­tab­lished the NAM Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion in July 2022. The per­ma­nent sec­re­tar­iat of the NAM Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion will be lo­cat­ed in Baku.

    Ilham Aliyev attends Summit of NAM Contact Group on fight against COVID-19 · · Source: president.az
  • During the chair­man­ship of Azer­bai­jan, the Par­lia­men­tary Net­work of the Non-Aligned Move­ment and the Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion were es­tab­lished. For the first time in the 61-year his­to­ry of the Move­ment, a Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion was es­tab­lished in Shusha, bring­ing to­geth­er the youth of the Move­ment's member coun­tries.

    Ilham Aliyev attends Summit of NAM Contact Group on fight against COVID-19 · · Source: president.az
  • At the same time, the Youth Plat­form is being cre­at­ed. A youth forum will be held and a Youth Net­work of the Non-Aligned Move­ment will be es­tab­lished.

    Speech by Ilham Aliyev at the meeting on the results of six months of this year · · Source: president.az
  • An­oth­er im­por­tant ini­tia­tive is the youth net­work, and next month here in Baku, we will have an­oth­er im­por­tant event, the Youth Summit of NAM. So, these are the steps toward the in­sti­tu­tion­al de­vel­op­ment of NAM, and I think the time has come to take prac­ti­cal steps in that di­rec­tion.

    Ilham Aliyev attended Baku Conference of Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network · · Source: president.az
  • Based on the man­date given at the NAM Baku Summit, Azer­bai­jani chair­man­ship ex­plores the pos­si­bil­i­ty of set­ting up an in­sti­tu­tion­al net­work for the NAM youth.

    Ilham Aliyev’s statement presented at Mid-Term Ministerial Conference of Non-Aligned Movement in video format · · Source: president.az
  • This is why we took the ini­tia­tive to host the Youth Summit for the first time in the his­to­ry of the Non-Aligned Move­ment. The Youth Summit, held on the eve of the cur­rent Summit, was joined by young people who ar­rived in our coun­try from 40 coun­tries.

    Speech by Ilham Aliyev at the 18th Summit of Non-Aligned Movement gets underway in Baku · · Source: president.az

International representation

Since 2019 he has taken part in 23 in­ter­na­tion­al events and work­ing visits in 14 for­eign coun­tries. The list shows them to­geth­er with in­ter­na­tion­al and na­tion­al events held in Azer­bai­jan.

  • Egypt2023
  • France2022, 2023, 2025, 2026
  • Hungary2019
  • Iran2026
  • Italy2024
  • Kazakhstan2024
  • Kyrgyzstan2021
  • Poland2022
  • Portugal2019
  • Switzerland2022
  • Tajikistan2022
  • Türkiye2020, 2021, 2023, 2026
  • United States2022, 2023
  • Venezuela2023

2026

  • Iran

    Ard­abil Week, Ard­abil, Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic of Iran. Took part in the del­e­ga­tion of Azer­bai­jan led by Isa Habib­bayli, Pres­i­dent of the Azer­bai­jan Na­tion­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, with Deputy Min­is­ter of Cul­ture Farid Ja­farov and Member of the Milli Majlis Jeyhun Mam­madov, in the Sheikh Safi al-Din Ard­abili Day events and in the meet­ings with Iran's Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Is­lam­ic Guid­ance Seyed Abbas Salehi and the Gov­er­nor of Ard­abil Prov­ince, and pre­pared the report on the visit.

  • Azer­bai­jan

    Turkic World Week, Baku and Garabagh. Served on the work­ing group on the or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Week, held by the Min­istry of Cul­ture on 29 June – 3 July 2026 in im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Order of Pres­i­dent Ilham Aliyev of 22 Oc­to­ber 2025 on the cel­e­bra­tion of the 100th an­niver­sary of the First Turko­log­i­cal Con­gress, wrote the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny script and de­vel­oped the dig­i­tal plat­form for man­ag­ing par­tic­i­pants and the pro­gramme.

  • France

    UNESCO Head­quar­ters, Paris. Rep­re­sent­ed the Min­istry of Cul­ture in the del­e­ga­tion of Azer­bai­jan at the 14th ses­sion of the Sub­sidiary Com­mit­tee of the 1970 Con­ven­tion (Azer­bai­jan is an elect­ed member for 2023–2027) and at the 25th ses­sion of the In­ter­gov­ern­men­tal Com­mit­tee for Pro­mot­ing the Return of Cul­tur­al Prop­er­ty to its Coun­tries of Origin or its Resti­tu­tion in case of Il­lic­it Ap­pro­pri­a­tion (ICPRCP, of which Azer­bai­jan is a member for 2025–2029).

  • Türkiye

    Strate­gic Co­op­er­a­tion Con­fer­ence and Tech­ni­cal Work­shop on Turkic Cul­tur­al Her­itage: Com­bat­ting Il­lic­it Traf­fick­ing of Cul­tur­al Prop­er­ty, Gaziantep, Türkiye. Rep­re­sent­ed the Min­istry of Cul­ture and, joint­ly with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Min­istry of In­ter­nal Af­fairs and the State Cus­toms Com­mit­tee, pre­sent­ed Azer­bai­jan's legal frame­work and in­sti­tu­tion­al ap­proach, the work on doc­u­ment­ing and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly trac­ing the cul­tur­al her­itage of lib­er­at­ed Garabagh and East­ern Zangazur, and the legal po­si­tion on cul­tur­al prop­er­ty re­moved under oc­cu­pa­tion in the con­text of Ar­ti­cle 11 of the UNESCO 1970 Con­ven­tion.

2025

  • Azer­bai­jan

    OIC Cul­ture Fes­ti­val: Baku Cre­ative Week 2025, Baku. Served as a member of the work­ing group on the or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Fes­ti­val, held in part­ner­ship with the OIC and the Heydar Aliyev Foun­da­tion, and worked on the draft­ing of the Baku Com­mu­niqué on Cre­ative In­dus­tries and the script of the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny.

  • France

    UNESCO Head­quar­ters, Paris. Rep­re­sent­ed the Min­istry of Cul­ture in the del­e­ga­tion of Azer­bai­jan at the meet­ings under the 1954 Hague Con­ven­tion for the Pro­tec­tion of Cul­tur­al Prop­er­ty in the Event of Armed Con­flict and its 1999 Second Pro­to­col, in­clud­ing the 20th meet­ing of the Com­mit­tee for the Pro­tec­tion of Cul­tur­al Prop­er­ty in the Event of Armed Con­flict.

  • Azer­bai­jan

    Clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the CIS Coun­tries' Youth Camp, Lachin. Spoke on behalf of the Youth Foun­da­tion.

    Report.azNAYORA

  • Azer­bai­jan

    Youth Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Forum, Baku. Spoke on a panel as Head of De­part­ment of the Youth Foun­da­tion.

  • Azer­bai­jan

    Con­fer­ence on strength­en­ing Global South NGOs for a new and just world, Baku. Mod­er­at­ed the side event “Bridg­ing Bor­ders: D-8 Col­lab­o­ra­tion for a Pros­per­ous Future” at the first meet­ing of NGOs of the D-8 coun­tries.

    AZƏRTAC (EN)AZƏRTAC

2024

  • Italy

    Eu­ro­pean Alumni Forum “In­spire. Impact. Change.”, Rome. At­tend­ed as Acting Head of De­part­ment of the Youth Foun­da­tion, a part­ner of the Forum or­gan­ised by ADA Uni­ver­si­ty and ASAP.

  • Azer­bai­jan

    29th ses­sion of the Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties to the UNFCCC (COP29), hosted by Azer­bai­jan in Baku. Took part in the Blue and Green Zones.

  • Kaza­khstan

    En­ac­tus World Cup 2024, Astana, Kaza­khstan. Served as a judge.

  • Azer­bai­jan

    Hackathon “Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence in the Green Econ­o­my”, Baku. Took part as Head of De­part­ment of the Youth Foun­da­tion.

  • Azer­bai­jan

    In­ter­na­tion­al Youth Forum on Sup­port­ing En­vi­ron­men­tal Policy through Young Lead­ers, Baku. De­liv­ered the open­ing speech as Acting Head of De­part­ment of the Youth Foun­da­tion at the Forum, which brought to­geth­er young people from 18 coun­tries in the Year of Sol­i­dar­i­ty for a Green World de­clared by Pres­i­dent Ilham Aliyev.

    AZƏRTACReport.az

  • Azer­bai­jan

    “A+” grad­u­ates' cel­e­bra­tion or­gan­ised by ASYOU with thou­sands of young people, Baku. Took part on behalf of the Youth Foun­da­tion.

  • Azer­bai­jan

    In­ter­na­tion­al Lead­er­ship and Diplo­ma­cy Con­fer­ence, Shusha. Mod­er­at­ed the ses­sion “Role of Youth in Ad­vanc­ing Cli­mate Di­a­logues” at the Con­fer­ence, held within the open­ing events of Shusha as the 10th OIC Youth Cap­i­tal.

2023

  • France

    11th World Forum for Democ­ra­cy, Coun­cil of Europe, Stras­bourg. Speak­ing at the Forum talk “In­ter­na­tion­al Com­mu­ni­ty and Demo­crat­ic In­se­cu­ri­ty”, raised the prob­lem of land­mines in the lib­er­at­ed ter­ri­to­ries and drew at­ten­tion to Ar­me­nia's re­fusal to pro­vide mine­field maps as a se­ri­ous ob­sta­cle to the safe return of in­ter­nal­ly dis­placed per­sons.

  • United States

    High-Level Week of the 78th ses­sion of the UN Gen­er­al As­sem­bly and the Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals (SDG) Summit, New York. Took part as Azer­bai­jan's of­fi­cial Youth Del­e­gate and held a number of meet­ings.

  • Venezuela

    First Re­gion­al Forum of NAM Youth for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Car­ib­bean, Cara­cas, Venezuela. Trav­elled as Chair­per­son of the NAM Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion to or­gan­ise the Forum.

    Xinhua (Span­ish)

  • Azer­bai­jan

    Non-Aligned Move­ment Youth Shusha Week, Shusha, the cul­tur­al cap­i­tal of Azer­bai­jan. De­liv­ered the open­ing ad­dress as NAMYO Chair­per­son at the Week, held with the sup­port of the Min­istry of For­eign Af­fairs and the Min­istry of Youth and Sports to mark the first an­niver­sary of the Shusha Accord, and mod­er­at­ed its in­ter­ac­tive ses­sion and clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny.

  • Egypt

    Nasser Fel­low­ship for In­ter­na­tion­al Lead­er­ship, Cairo, Egypt. Spoke at the Fel­low­ship pro­gramme and held a number of meet­ings.

    Nasser Youth Move­ment

  • Azer­bai­jan

    Meet­ing of NAM member states' min­is­ters re­spon­si­ble for in­for­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions (vir­tu­al), on ICT in­fra­struc­ture de­vel­op­ment for the Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals, or­gan­ised by the Min­istry of Dig­i­tal De­vel­op­ment and Trans­port. Spoke as Chair­per­son of the NAM Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion.

  • United States

    UN ECOSOC Youth Forum, New York. Took part in the NAM Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion del­e­ga­tion, spoke at the side event “Re­cov­ery from COVID-19: Per­spec­tives of NAM Youth”, co-or­gan­ised by the Or­ga­ni­za­tion and NAYORA, and held a number of meet­ings.

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  • Azer­bai­jan

    Summit-level Meet­ing of the Non-Aligned Move­ment Con­tact Group in re­sponse to COVID-19, Baku. De­liv­ered a state­ment as Chair­per­son of the NAM Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion.

  • Azer­bai­jan

    Public dis­cus­sion “The Cor­si­ca issue and vi­o­la­tions of fun­da­men­tal human rights”, Baku. Spoke as Chair­per­son of the NAM Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion.

    AZƏRTAC

  • Türkiye

    Hu­man­i­tar­i­an mis­sion to the earth­quake zone, Kahra­man­maraş, Türkiye. Trav­elled with the del­e­ga­tion of the Agency for State Sup­port to Non-Gov­ern­men­tal Or­ga­ni­za­tions to de­liv­er aid to fam­i­lies who had lost their homes.

2022

  • United States

    Brief­ing on the ac­tiv­i­ties of NAMYO, UN Head­quar­ters, New York. Briefed the del­e­ga­tions of NAM Member States as Chair­per­son and an­swered their ques­tions.

    Youth Foun­da­tion of the Re­pub­lic of Azer­bai­jan

  • Azer­bai­jan

    Meet­ing of Min­is­ters of Ed­u­ca­tion of the Non-Aligned Move­ment member states (online), or­gan­ised by the Min­istry of Sci­ence and Ed­u­ca­tion. Spoke as Chair­per­son of the NAM Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tion.

  • United States

    En­ac­tus World Cup 2022, San Juan, Puerto Rico (USA). Led the na­tion­al del­e­ga­tion, whose team ad­vanced to the semi-final stage among the world's Top 16.

  • Tajik­istan

    In­ter­na­tion­al High-Level Con­fer­ence on “In­ter­na­tion­al and Re­gion­al Border Se­cu­ri­ty and Man­age­ment Co­op­er­a­tion to Counter Ter­ror­ism and Pre­vent the Move­ment of Ter­ror­ists”, Dushanbe, Tajik­istan. Was the first youth speak­er in the Dushanbe Process, launched in 2018, at the con­fer­ence co-or­gan­ised by the Gov­ern­ment of Tajik­istan, the UN Office of Counter-Ter­ror­ism, the UN Re­gion­al Centre for Pre­ven­tive Diplo­ma­cy for Cen­tral Asia, the OSCE and the EU, and de­liv­ered a state­ment on whole-of-so­ci­ety ter­ror­ism pre­ven­tion and the role of youth in com­bat­ing rad­i­cal­i­sa­tion.

    İnt­erP­ress

  • Poland

    OSCE Warsaw Human Di­men­sion Con­fer­ence, Warsaw. De­liv­ered, as a youth civil so­ci­ety rep­re­sen­ta­tive, three ple­nary ad­dress­es on fun­da­men­tal rights and free­doms, racism, xeno­pho­bia, dis­crim­i­na­tion and free­dom of ex­pres­sion.

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  • Switzer­land

    51st ses­sion of the UN Human Rights Coun­cil, Geneva. Spoke as a pan­el­list at the Bi­en­ni­al Panel Dis­cus­sion on the Right to De­vel­op­ment “35 Years on: Policy Path­ways to Op­er­a­tional­is­ing the Right to De­vel­op­ment”, mod­er­at­ed by Coun­cil Pres­i­dent Fed­eri­co Vil­le­gas.

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  • Azer­bai­jan

    Baku Con­fer­ence of the Non-Aligned Move­ment Par­lia­men­tary Net­work, Baku. Spoke on behalf of the NAM Youth Net­work.

  • France

    “50-50” train­ing on young people's access to rights, Eu­ro­pean Youth Centre of the Coun­cil of Europe, Stras­bourg.

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  • Azer­bai­jan

    En­ac­tus Net­work Lead­er­ship Summit 2022, Baku. Served on the or­gan­is­ing com­mit­tee.

  • Azer­bai­jan

    Youth Forum on the 25th an­niver­sary of Azer­bai­jan Youth Day, at­tend­ed by Pres­i­dent Ilham Aliyev. Ad­dressed a ques­tion on the vol­un­teer move­ment to the Pres­i­dent.

    pres­i­dent.az (of­fi­cial site of the Pres­i­dent) of­fi­cial sourcevideoAZƏRTAC

  • Azer­bai­jan

    China-SCO-Eura­sia Youth Lead­ers Di­a­logue, Bei­jing. De­liv­ered a video ad­dress as Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of the Azer­bai­jan Stu­dent Youth Or­ga­ni­za­tions' Union.

    videoChina Daily

2021

  • Türkiye

    Turkic Coun­cil Media Forum, Is­tan­bul, Türkiye.

  • Kyr­gyzs­tan

    Young Lead­ers Forum of the Turkic Coun­cil (now the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Turkic States), Osh, Kyr­gyzs­tan.

2020

  • Türkiye

    In­ter­na­tion­al meet­ing and train­ing events of the Eras­mus Stu­dent Net­work, Is­tan­bul, Türkiye. Rep­re­sent­ed Azer­bai­jan as Na­tion­al Rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

2019

  • Por­tu­gal

    In­ter­na­tion­al meet­ing and train­ing events of the Eras­mus Stu­dent Net­work, Lisbon, Por­tu­gal. Rep­re­sent­ed Azer­bai­jan as Na­tion­al Rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

  • Hun­gary

    ES­Ngen­der Check-up study ses­sion, Eu­ro­pean Youth Centre, Bu­da­pest. Took part in the ses­sion, or­gan­ised by the Coun­cil of Europe with the Eras­mus Stu­dent Net­work.

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  • Azer­bai­jan

    Diplo­ma­cy Week on the 100th an­niver­sary of Azer­bai­jan's diplo­mat­ic ser­vice, held by ADA Uni­ver­si­ty and the Min­istry of For­eign Af­fairs, Baku. Com­plet­ed the pro­gramme.