<b>Umud Rahimoglu, Chairman of the International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF) and Nick Nwolisa, Head of Program Development and International Relations, IEPF are on business travel to New York. <br /> The aim of the travel is to participate in deliberations on IEPF Quadrennial Report and in the Fiftieth Session of the Commission on Social Development of ECOSOC division, UN. </b>
Umud Rahimoglu, Chairman of IEPF passed the information. Based on this information the IEPF Report was approved. As U. Rahimoglu informed, during the discussions on the reports Andrei Abramov, Chief of NGO Division remarked about the comprehensive form of the IEPF Report and therefore it had been approved.
U. Rahimoglu was pleased to hear about the high appreciation of the report: “Of course we were sure that the Committee would consider our report positively because IEPF had submitted a comprehensive report. It was my pleasure to hear about it from Mr. Andrei Abramov. Since 2007 IEPF with Special Consultative status of the ECOSOC Division had carried out various activities. IEPF participated in several influential international meetings of UN and was active in most deliberation. Moreover, IEPF kept to the requirement for NGOs in consultative status with the ECOSOC division; achieving the MDGs target for 2010-2015 was one of the remarkable steps in our activity. IEPF closely collaborates with various UN agencies. The report reflected information on various projects implemented and about the state of civil society, social-economic state, human rights, freedom of expression and media development in the country.”
As U. Rahimoglu informed deliberations on various topics were carried out in the Fiftieth Session of the Commission on Social Development of ECOSOC division, UN.
It should be stated that IEPF coordinates the possibilities for improvement through cooperation of local NGOs with UN agencies including ECOSOC division.
Information Department, IEPF