Baku, Azerbaijan, April 18. Azerbaijan’s Baku
will host the founding conference of the Global South
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Platform on April 28, said
Aygun Aliyeva, Executive Director of Azerbaijan’s Agency for State
Support to NGOs, Trend reports.
In a statement made during a press conference marking the fourth
anniversary of the activities of the agency, Aliyeva recalled that
during the COP29, with the support of the Agency, a free conference
hall was made available for local NGOs in the Green zone, where 54
conferences were held. Over 2,500 NGO representatives participated
in these events, with more than 70 percent being foreign NGOs
involved in COP29.
Furthermore, the Agency organized five international conferences
for NGOs within the framework of COP29, including a conference for
Non-Aligned Movement countries on climate diplomacy, a forum for
NGOs of Turkic states, and forums for the participants of COP28,
COP29, and COP30. Additionally, there was a forum dedicated to the
ecology of the Caspian Sea.
“It is a great honor for the Agency that, as part of COP29 in
November 2024, during the Non-Aligned Movement NGO conference on
South-South cooperation, foreign NGOs participating in the
discussions agreed to establish the Global South NGO Platform. Over
1,000 NGOs from 137 countries joined the statement supporting the
initiative of the Azerbaijan National NGO Forum. As a continuation
of this process, the founding conference of the Global South NGO
Platform will take place in Baku on April 28,” said Aliyeva.
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