Mr. Umud Mirzoyev, Chairman of the International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF) along with Mr. Boris Golovin, IEPF’s Plenipotentiary Representative in the Russian Federation, have participated in the Regular Session of UN ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) NGO Committee which took place from 22 January – 02 February, 2007 in New York. The Application Package of the IEPF for receiving Consultative Status along with other 103 new applications, 6 reclassifications, 37 deferred applications, 100 new quadrennial reports submitted by NGOs were on the agenda of the Regular Session of UN ECOSOC.
The outcome of the Regular Session is that: The International Eurasia Press Fund was given a positive recommendation to receive the ECOSOC’s special Consultative Status as an international organization. The ECOSOC’s special Consultative Status is given to those NGOs which have experience in one or several activity aspects of ECOSOC. Non-governmental organizations, non-profitable and voluntary agencies with special Consultative Status able to establish useful mutual collaboration ties with UN, participate in international conferences and other special meetings held by UN General Assembly, consult with officers from the Secretariat on matters of interest to the NGO, allowed to make oral statements based on recommendations by the Committee, may designate representatives to sit at meetings of ECOSOC and its subsidiaries and consult with officers from the Secretariat on matters of interest to the NGO.