The
Human Rights Defender Ms. Kristinne Grigoryan hosted the delegation headed by
the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
in Armenia Ms. Natia Natsvlishvili.
Welcoming
the international partners at the Office of the Human Rights Defender, the Defender
praised the high level of cooperation between the UN Development Programme and
the Office of the Defender, highlighting, at the same time, the urgency to
deepen the cooperation due to priorities which have arisen as a result of new
challenges.
In
turn, Ms. Natia Natsvlishvili congratulated Ms. Kristinne Grigoryan on assuming
the mission of the Human Rights Defender, noting that they see a great opportunity in relation
to the institutional strengthening of human rights protection in Armenia.
Before
discussing issues related to cooperation, the Human Rights Defender Ms.
Grigoryan presented to Ms. Natia Natsvlishvili the current situation in Artsakh
in connection with the provocations initiated by the Azerbaijani side, as a
result of which the Armenian side has deaths and injured. Ms. Kristinne
Grogoryan stressed that human rights are universal. The Defender, presenting
the chronology of the criminal acts of the Azerbaijani side, which are
motivated by ethnic hatred, underlined that a population of 100.000 ethnic
Armenians are in fact deprived of all international guarantees of human rights
protection, which in turn gives an impetus for Azerbaijan to commit even more
brutal and inhumane acts.
Ms.
Natia Natsvlishvili thanked the Defender for the detailed information, and
noted that the concerns and issues raised would be reported to the UN
Headquarters.
Within
the framework of the cooperation agenda, the Defender Ms. Grigoryan and Ms. Natia
Natsvlishvili discussed a number of issues related to the development of the
Office of the Defender (expansion of regional offices), increasing of its
research capabilities, gender equality, and the exclusion of all forms of
discrimination and hate speech.
Concluding
the meeting, the parties agreed to continue the implementation of the current
joint programs, and to outline new directions of cooperation.
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