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US TO ALLOCATE $ 3 MILLION FOR DEMOCRACY AND TRANSPARENCY OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN AZERBAIJAN
APA,
14, May 2008
Baku. Tamara Grigoryeva -APA. The United States will allocate $ 3 million for democracy and transparency of presidential elections in Azerbaijan in October, 2008, US ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse said, APA reports.
To her, US National Democratic Institute has allocated $870.000, International Republicans Institute 715.000, Eurasia Partnership Foundation 70.000, ABA CEELI 48.000, IREX 130.000, State Department 350.000, and Democracy Commission Small Grants 50.000. Allocations aim to strengthen activity of political parties, improve election system, increase of observation, transmit political debates in Azerbaijan and US, monitor the outcomes of the election, increase of efforts to en sure transparency and ensure freedom of assembly.
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May 2008, Issue No. 59
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NATION MARKS 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST ORIENTAL DEMOCRACY
Azeri News, 27, May 2008
May 28 marks the 90th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR), the first-ever democratic republic in the Orient.
President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday paid tribute to a monument dedicated to its establishment in the center of Baku.
Hosting a solemn reception on this occasion at the Gulustan Palace, Aliyev pointed to the tremendous historic role of ADR, regarding its creation on May 28, 1918 as a remarkable development.
The president emphasized that present-day Azerbaijan has taken its worthy place on the world stage.
Referring to the changes taking place in the country, President Aliyev said that along with economic reforms, political ones are under way. He said Azerbaijan’s current development is related to the parallel conduct of these reforms. The economy is developing successfully and the republic’s diplomatic power is growing. Great attention is being paid to the development of education, healthcare, information technologies and other fields.
Aliyev said Azerbaijan will fill the ranks of the world’s developed countries in the near future.
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