The Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan
received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of
Kazakhstan to Armenia Timur Urazayev.
During the meeting, the Human Rights
Defender presented the directions of his activities and mandate, as well as the
projects that are carried out in the field of the child’s rights protection to
the Ambassador.
Arman Tatoyan expressed his gratitude for
Commissioner for Human Rights of Kazakhstan Askar Shakirov’s quick response to
the incident in Karaganda with the involvement of Armenians in January of this
year following the request of the Human Rights Defender of Armenia.
Timur Urazayev emphasized the
importance of the Defender’s role from the perspective of the human rights and
especially child’s rights protection and full realization of the rights and
invited Arman Tatoyan to participate in the high-level international conference
devoted to the child’s rights protection planned in autumn 2019 in the capital
of Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan.
At the end of the meeting, the parties
expressed their readiness to develop the close cooperation between the national
human rights institutions of the two countries.