BAKU: Ramil Safarov Fasts In Prison

RAMIL SAFAROV FASTS IN PRISON

Azeri press Agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 8 2007

"Annual NGO budget in Hungary makes up [email protected]. 47% is formed by
the state budget, 41% by profitable spheres and 12% by different
individual and collective allocations," Azay Guliyev, Azerbaijani MP,
president of National NGO Forum who visited Hungary told APA.

He said that 57,000 NGOs were registered in the country and 24,0000
NGOs operate illegally.

"NGO is registered by local courts within a month after its
establishment and is given status of legal entity. The court can
close any NGO which does not operate within 5 years. A notion of NGO
in Hungary a little bit differs from the one in Azerbaijan. Public
activities are high. For example, according to NGO statistics there
are over 400,000 volunteers. The great majority of them joined NGO
movement not to earn living, but to spend money and labor to accelerate
material and moral development of the society. If their labor is
converted into money, 8,000 people can get high salary," he said.

Azay Guliyev said he met with Azerbaijani soldier Ramil Safarov,
who was accused of killing Armenian officer Gurgen Markaryan and got
life sentence and added that his moral and psychological state is good.

Ramil Safarov reads books, performs namaz, fasts and tries to learn
a language in prison.

"I met with him in prison. My colleague Rabiyyat Aslanova and officer
of our embassy were also there. Ramil Safarov with his tolerance,
honor and behavior protects our country’s image. Our embassy deals with
Ramil’s case using all opportunities provided by European legislation
and Hungary’s laws. The process is stable and continuous.

Everything is done and will be done," he said.