The
Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan continues to have meetings with
international partners, presenting issues on the protection of the rights of
people forcibly displaced from Nagorno Karabakh.
Today, on October 5, the Defender received the
delegation led by Mohan Ramesh Rajasingam, the Head and the representative of
the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva.
Among the members of the delegation were Natia Natsileishvili, acting UN
Permanent Coordinator in Armenia, and Denis Besedich, the Head of the UN
Permanent Coordinator's Office.
Anahit
Manasyan presented the state of protection of the rights of people forcibly
displaced from Nagorno Karabakh, presenting the apparent violations of
international law and international humanitarian law in individual cases.
The
Defender referred to the results of the fact-finding activities conducted by
her and the staff of the Defender's office in the centers that conducted
primary needs assessments, in Kornidzor, and also in Goris and Vaik, aimed at
protecting the rights of people forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh.
The
Defender also presented the results of the monitoring of Azerbaijani public
sources and social media publications conducted by the staff of the Human
Rights Defender's office, stating that there are a large number of posts by
social network users targeting the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh on
the basis of ethnic origin, propagating and justifying hatred and violence. In
this context, the Defender stated that such an intolerant attitude of the
Azerbaijani society is the consequence and proof of the anti-Armenian policy of
the Azerbaijani authorities.
The
parties exchanged ideas on addressing the humanitarian and legal issues of
people forcibly displaced from Nagorno Karabakh, reaffirming the importance of
human rights, being paramount in all situations and in any corner of the world.
At the end of the meeting, the parties reached
an agreement to expand cooperation on issues on the protection of human rights.
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