94 NGOs urged the EITI not to stop Azerbaijan`s participation in this organization

 Ninety four organizations from 140 members of the NGO coalition on increasing transparency in the extractive industries appealed the participants of the forthcoming meeting of the International EITI Board (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) on March 8-9 in Bogotá.

Azerbaijan's participation in the EITI is useful and creates a platform for civil society cooperation with the government and is important for local NGOs, the appeal reads. A representative of this group of pro-government NGOs, Alimamed Nuriyev, asserts that the situation with civil society has "significantly improved" after the implementation of the Action Plan and the recommendations put forward by the international EITI board.

Many of the problems that the coalition members have been eliminated, grant registration and rules for regulating the activities of donors have been simplified. Discussions with the government give grounds to believe that the process is becoming coherent and the problems of civil society will be resolved, the appeal says.

The authors of the appeal accused six members of the Coalition Council of misinformation of international government. If Azerbaijan's membership in the EITI is suspended, then the responsibility for this will bear this "six", claim the authors of the appeal

According to Turan, six members of the Coalition Council, unlike the other five, believe that the government has not implemented the recommendations of the EITI Board.

Previously, the number NGOs sent an appeal to the EITI with an appeal to take into account the fact that the Azerbaijani authorities did not comply with the requirements of international governance and did not create conditions for the activities of civil society and leaders of independent NGOs. -06D-