<b>He was pleased with the activity of State Support Council for NGOs</b><br /> <br /> Mr. Andrei Abramov, Head of NGO Branch, Economical and Social Council, UN (ECOSOC) is on a business travel to Azerbaijan. He came to Azerbaijan based on the invitation from the International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF). Umud Rahimoglu, Chairperson of IEPF gave this information.<br /> <br />
According to his information the main mission of his visit is getting acquaintance with real situation of the NGO sector in Azerbaijan; the ways of their integration into UN agencies and perspectives; discussions on more dynamic development of civil society institutions; getting acquaintance with IEPF regional activities and projects implemented in the region: “International Eurasia Press Fund has a special consultative status with the ECOSOC since 2007. We regularly participate in various events organized by ECOSOC in different countries. Recently I joined the ECOSOC High Level Ministerial Review on July 4-8 in Geneva and made a speech there (http://www.iepf-ngo.org/news.php?id=701). During that meeting we discussed with Andrei Abramov his visit to Azerbaijan. Hopefully, we will alsoto discuss with Andrei Abramov the IEPF’s strategically development platform. Today morning Andrei Abramov visited IEPF office in Baku before he commenced his other planned meetings”.
According to U. Rahimoglu’s information, today A. Abramov visited the State Support Council for NGOs under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan: “Today Mr. A. Abramov met with Azay Quliyev, Member of Parliament and with representatives of more than 20 NGOs at the State Support Council for NGOs under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The guest was pleased with the support action of the Government towards the development of NGOs. He stressed the necessity of close collaboration between ECOSOC and NGOs in Azerbaijan”.
A. Abramov expressed his great gratitude to U. Rahimoglu for the invitation. Representatives of NGO structures- Umud Rahimoglu, replica watches Ahmed Gashemoglu, Vusale Huseynli, Parvin Mammadova, Novella Jafarova, Israil Isgenderov, Saida Gocamanli, Rauf Zeyni, Seadet Benanyarli, Vahid Gazi and others expressed their view points on how to collaborate with ECOSOC. Exchange of view points to strengthening relations of NGOs with Representative/Coordinator in Azerbaijan; expansion of community communications for the sake of resolving the Daghlig Garabagh (Nagorniy Karabagh) conflict; meeting the social problems of refugees and IDPs’; exchange of experience with other nations through UN agencies, etc. were all the focus of attention.
On the second half of the day A. Abramov and U. Rahimoglu met with Ali Hasanov, Head of Department on Public and Social Relations of the Presidential Administration and Envera Selimovic, Head of Department of Public Information, UN, Azerbaijan Office.
Information Department, IEPF