South Azerbaijan National Council of Statehood reschedules constituent assembly

The South Azerbaijan National Council of Statehood (NCS) has rescheduled its constituent assembly for May 7.

The organisation’s initiative group told Caliber.Az that the online constituent assembly of the National Council of Statehood scheduled to be held on April 30, 2023 will be held on May 7, 2023.

The change of the date of the meeting is related to the III International Forum of South Azerbaijani Turks, which is scheduled to be held in Istanbul on April 29, the initiative group’s statement reads.

“We, as the Initiative group of the South Azerbaijan National Council of Statehood, wish success to the organisers and participants of the Forum and welcome their initiative,” it stresses.

In its previous statement, the organisation announced that the founding meeting of the council would be held on April 30, 2023.

"Along with the geopolitical developments taking place in the region where our homeland Azerbaijan is located, the importance and decisive role of the national movement initiated by the Azerbaijani Turks living in South Azerbaijan for the restoration of their national statehood has once again been shown in the national, political and social processes that are intensifying in the country called Iran.

It is in such a situation that the need for a strong, unified national-political organization, which adopts the Azerbaijan-centered national statehood thinking of the South Azerbaijan National Movement, exhibits an independent will for the restoration of our national statehood, and aims at the formation of national power in this direction, has emerged,” the organization said in the statement.

According to the NCS, based on this necessity, from the second half of 2022, a number of national institutions, representatives of organizations and individuals came together to create an initiative group in this regard.