BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 23. The action plan for declaring Azerbaijan's Shusha city as the "Cultural Capital of the Islamic World" for 2024 has been approved, TurkicWorld reports.

The relevant decree was signed by Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov.

According to the document, the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan will coordinate the implementation of the steps listed in the action plan approved by this decree.

The operations indicated in the action plan approved by this decree will be funded using monies allocated from Azerbaijan's state budget for 2024 to the various executive bodies, as well as other legal sources.

The Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers' Department of Humanitarian Affairs was tasked with overseeing the decree's implementation.

This decree goes into effect on the day of its signature.

On November 21, 2023, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on measures related to the declaration of Shusha city as the "Cultural Capital of the Islamic World" for 2024.