A Common Word Between Us and You DC for President Barack Obama on 21 January 2009. Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright referred to A Common Word during her testimony before the US Senate in February 2009, and Pope Benedict XVI referred to A Common Word on several occasions on 8 and 9 May 2009, during the course of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In the course of 2008 "A Common Word" inspired a number of initiatives between Muslims and Christians, including: Nearly 700 articles have appeared about "A Common Word" in English language press outlets around the world. Virtually every newspaper in the Middle
Secretary of State of Azerbaijan Tofig Ismayilov. The significance of the position varied in time. Under President Heydar Aliyev in 1993 the position rose to become the second after the head of state. Tadeusz Swietochowski wrote, '...Clearly, the number two person in Azerbaijan is Lala Shevket Hajiyeva, whose title is State Secretary - which does not mean a foreign minister...' The last holder of the position, Professor Lala Shevket herself told in an interview to Azerbaijan International magazine about the scope of the responsibilities of Azerbaijani Secretary of State, "There's a big difference between the United States' Secretary of State and Azerbaijan's. Our Secretary of