Today, the office of the U.S. National Democratic Institute in Baku was officially closed, according to informed sources in Washington. In fact, the Office ceased to function in March, after the authorities accused this structure of financing subversive youth against the government of Azerbaijan. A number of sites working for the Azerbaijani authorities suddenly got copies of bank documents proving that the representative of NDI debited during the year about 2 million dollars. Those sites who call themselves human rights, argued that money was sent to facebook revolution in Azerbaijan. Irrefutable proof, according to the authors of publications, was that NDI has provided a grant for the youth organization NIDA, seven members of which were arrested and announced the organizers of the failed revolution. In her interview with Turan agency, the NDI regional director for Eurasia, Laura Dzhyuet, said that the NDI activities in Azerbaijan is completely transparent and the organization fully complies with local laws. Therefore, the assumption that the NDI is involved in any other activities is completely false, she said. In turn, President of the NDI, Kenneth Wollack, stated that such articles are a complete fabrication and discredit the professionalism of the authors.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:25:48 +0000