Baku – APA. The Seimas of the Lithuania has presented a contest launched by the Council of State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani embassy in Lithuania told APA. Addressing the event held on the initiative of the embassy, council chairman, MP Azay Guliyev thoroughly informed about the organizationÉ™s activity and grant program proposed to foreign NGOs. Responding a number of questions of NGO leaders, Azay Guliyev noted both regional and global importance of the topics and called on the NGOs to take an active part in this contest.
Addressing the event, Ambassador Hasan Mammadzadeh noted the presentation of the contest had been first held in Lithuania after it was declared and expressed his confidence that Lithuanian NGOs will be successfully represented in this program.
Chairman of Interparliamentary Friendship Group with Azerbaijan in the Lithuanian Seimas Juras POŽELA, member of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs Mantas Adomėnas, heads of the country's leading higher educational institutions, influential NGO and mass media representatives, as well as a number of officials attended the event.
The contest that can be attended by the NGOs of 15 countries, including the US, Russia and several EU leading states covers 1) Protection of basic human rights and freedoms, 2) Combating xenophobia, discrimination and islamophobia, 3) Ensuring peace and security in the region and social support to eliminate negative consequences of conflicts (in the context of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan), 4) The enhancement of interreligious dialogue, 5) Informing the US and European society about important issues such as Khojaly genocide committed on February 26, 1992.
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