Bad News for Grant-Dependent NGOs

AZG Armenian Daily #078, 29/04/2006

Neighbors

BAD NEWS FOR GRANT-DEPENDENT NGOS

The national Forum of NGOs of Azerbaijan has decided to keep back from
cooperation with Armenian NGOs, Day.az reports. Azerbaijani NGOs are
allowed to cooperate only with those Armenian non-profit organizations
that recognize Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and consider Nagorno
Karabakh regulation only possible within the international law.
Besides, the Azerbaijani NGOs have made a decision to enhance their
activity in putting the Karabakh issue within the scope of
Azerbaijan’s territorial wholeness and international law.

In effect, this initiative of Azerbaijan can turn into a trouble for
the Armenian NGOs, which cooperate with the Azeri ones within the
frameworks of regional projects.