Given that little importance was made to media development, it drew our attention, and we gave our proposals in this direction. We stressed that paying more attention to media is very important in the development of civil society in Azerbaijan, and we also proposed to include the newly established organisation in our country \u2500 the State Support Fund for Mass Media under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan Press Council into the list of the UNDAF partners. At the same time, we appealed with letter about it to the head and all members of working group within the framework to draw their attention to it again.\u201d<\/p>\n
V.Linneber noted that her meeting with U.Rahimoglu was connected with these proposals and she notified that she was interested in the mandate, status, and principal activities of the newly established organisation and Press Council. In generally the state of modern Azerbaijan media. U.Rahimoglu gave detailed information about the establishment and activity of the State Support Fund fot Mass Media under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan Press Council: \u201c The main purpose of the state support for mass media is to take into account an important role of mass media in the process of development of civil society; to develop thought and information freedom, to support independence of mass media, to improve support mechanism to editorial offices, to increase fruitful partnership between mass media, to create conditions for increasing of professionality and responsibility of journalists and other important problems. Just to note, in the event, connected with National Press Day, which you participated in, each of 39 Azerbaijan information agencies\/organisations were supported with 10000 AZN. Project bidding for mass media of the country is being launched now. The acceptance of project proposals will be finished at the end of this month. The project proposals will be evaluated by experts in August and chosen projects will be carried executed by the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
V.Lineveber expressed her pleasure in their conversation and stated that she would inform the leadership of Development Program of UNDP, her colleagues, and would support within network the proposal to include the State Support Fund for Mass Media and Azerbaijan Press Council into the above mentioned framework as partner organisations.<\/p>\n
V.Linneveber said that she would come again for a long-term visit to Azerbaijan in September and she emphasized that she was sure she would get acquainted with the modern state of press in the country and would collaborate with the above mentioned organisations more closely.<\/p>\n
It should be noted that V.Linneveber has come to Azerbaijan from the Headquarters of UNDP to participate in the preparation of the above mentioned document. Lutfil Kabir, the International Consultant\/Adviser of IEPF participated in the meeting as well.<\/p>\n
IEPF Information Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Verena Linneveber, the group head of Development Program of UNDP met with Umud Rahimoglu, the Head of the Observation Council of the State Support Fundfor Mass Media under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan; also the vice-chairman of Azerbaijan Press Council and the chairman of IEPF. In the meeting held at the office of IEPF, U.Rahimoglu who firstly gave detailed information about the organisation noted that IEPF is an independent non-government organisation which was registered by state in 1992. He stated that IEPF is a member of: Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); Private Partnership Program of the USA State Department; the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE); International Peace Bureau, of International Press Institution. He went on to say: \u201c In the meetings which begun since 11th June, IEPF closely participated in working groups on Governance and Economic Development in the process of preparation of UNDAF Matrix Results Framework, Monitoring and Evaluating Frame (2011-2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}