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United Azerbaijan Popular Front Party protests against participation of NGOs representing separatist Nagorno-Karabakh regime at meeting of â€œEastern Partnershipâ€ Civil Society Forum

22 April 2013 13:05 (UTC +04:00)

The statement says that at the meeting in Yerevan on April 4-5 the Board of Directors of "Eastern Partnership" Civil Society Forum passed a decision supporting separatist regimes.

The decision ensuring the participation of NGOs operating in the unrecognized separatist regions (Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria) in the fifth annual meeting of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum in Moldova and on starting discussions over National Platforms of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum to allocate 10 seats under the name of “Eastern Partnership regions” have been passed at the meeting.

The Board of Directors of the party regarded the presentation of the occupied Azerbaijani territories as a separate entity under the name of "Eastern Partnership region" and discussions over the participation of NGOs illegally operating in these regions in "Eastern Partnership" Civil Society Forum as supporting the fact of occupation and encouraging separatism and condemned it: “The United Azerbaijan Popular Front Party demands the annulment of this unlawful and provocative decision and urges Azerbaijani NGOs attending the Forum to take urgent measures in this regard.”