On 19 January the Council of State Support to NGOs will hold a meeting at the "Park.İNN" , according to one of the invited participants. Turan failed to contact by phone with the Council. The same source said that the meeting will be devoted to the activities of the Council in 2015. The participation of the Chairman of the Council Azay Guliyev and Executive Secretary Farasat Gurbanov is expected. Last year the Council supported 520 local and foreign NGOs in the 11 areas, and two million mantas were spent on the financing of projects. Currently, the budget of the Council is six million manat, of which 1.4 million. goes to the expenses of the Council. The remaining 4.6 million will be spent to finance the projects.
In addition, 1,927,788 manats were saved on account of the Council for the continuation of foreign NGOs. In 2016 the state budget allocated to the Council 6. 619.000 manats to support NGO projects.
In 2015, the Secretariat of the Council imposed sanctions against NGOs that have not fulfilled the terms of contracts. At the same time, 89 local and foreign NGOs were fined 135.000.
* The Board of State Support to NGOs is the only donor to civil society sector of Azerbaijan. In recent years, official Baku has toughened legislation and evicted foreign donors of the country. At the same time actually it was forbidden to local NGOs to get projects from abroad. -05B04-
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An online meeting of civil society activists focused on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan, convened on the initiative of the Justice Solidarity Committee, highlighted significant concerns over the detention of journalists, political activists, and opponents of the war. The gathering, held on August 30, coincided with the International Day of Remembrance of the Missing and underscored the ongoing challenges facing both Azerbaijani and Armenian societies in the wake of the Karabakh conflicts.
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No precipitation is expected in Baku and on the Absheron Peninsula; the northwestern wind will change to a southeastern wind during the day. Air temperatures will range from 21-26°C at night and 33-38°C during the day, according to the National Hydrometeorology Service of the Ministry of Ecology.
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A fire has erupted at the Experimental and Testing Production of the Scientific Research Institute of SOCAR (the state oil company) in the Surakhani district of Baku, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. "Thanks to the urgent and necessary measures taken by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the spread of the fire to neighboring areas, including nearby residential buildings, has been prevented," the statement reads. Efforts to extinguish the fire are still ongoing.
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In September, the average monthly air temperature in Azerbaijan is expected to be close to the climatic norm. Precipitation levels will also be near the norm, but in some areas, they will exceed it, according to the September forecast from the National Hydrometeorological Service.
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