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Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation as well as non-governmental organizations has set up an initiative group connected with referendum

04 Aug 2016

On August 4,  Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation with the participation of representatives of national trade unions and non-governmental organizations held a meeting devoted to the referendum to be held on 26 September.

Chairman of Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation а member of parlament   Sattar Mehbaliyev opened the meeting by saying that the latest amendment to the Constitution of Azerbaijan was made in 2009.
 During the seven years since the last change Mehbaliyev Sattar stressed that the rapid development of Azerbaijan's achievements that demonstrates the need for further improvement of the Basic Law.
He noted that the main purpose of the amendments to the Constitution to allow the management and development of new and more flexible. Economic and political reform in the mechanism of governance
Chairman of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan informed about the draft law on the referendum concerning the introduction of amendments and additions to the Constitution of Azerbaijan regarding the amendment of article 23 of the Constitution as well as the addition of 6 new items changes to the same document made by Ilham Aliyev.
S.Mehbaliyev pointed out that with view to forming the agitation group related to referendum, public unions and organizations had held meetings, and defined their delegations. 401 delegates representing 24 Nongovernmental organizations and members of AHIK jointed today's meeting. After defining the quorum to hold a meeting, a chairman and secretary were elected and confirmed by voting.
After speeches the issues on agenda were discussed. As a result of discussions, the agitation group called Civil Society was created which consists of 25 persons by referendum. In the end, they made a decision to send a notification concerning creation of Civil Society to Central Election Committee