The meeting made the focus on discussions over the ways of fostering co-operation and exchange of experience between NGO coalitions of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Noting remarkable achievements of Azerbaijan’s NGOs in the implementation of EITI, establishment and development of relations between the Coalition, on the one side, and the public and mass media, on the other side, the quests from Kazakhstan stated their desire for benefiting from such experience. At their request, members of the Board of the Coalition – Mr Ingilab Ahmadov, Mr Sevgim Rahmanov, and Mr Qubad Ibadoglu, a co-ordinator for the alliance – provided in-depth information on the above-mentioned activities. In his answer to the question by Mr Nariman Aghayev, a member of the Board of the Coalition, Mr Anton Artemyev clarified that despite a number of state-owned Kazakh companies involved in the mining industry had signed to the memorandum concerning the implementation of EITI, as a matter of fact, this turned out to be a mere formality. According to him, NGOs in Kazakhstan sought to establish relations with those companies but failed to arrive at an appropriate format of working together.

After the discussions, there was reached an agreement on making considerable arrangements for yet expanding relations between the two groupings, joint measures aimed at making EITI-joined companies submit their corresponding reports on an individual basis, launching a regional web network, etc.

Participants of the meeting considered it necessary to include an option of extensive EITI info campaigns as a major component of joint activities in the future.