SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION DURING CONFLICTS HELD
IN STEPANAKERT TODAY

STEPANAKERT, APRIL 22. ARMINFO. Scientific conference on human rights
protection during armed conflicts was held in Stepanakert today.

The conference was organized by Mersop Mashtots University (Karabakh)
and Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) State University (Armenia).

Rector of Mesrop Mashtots University Donara Gabrielyan says that the
subject is topical for Karabakh as the country suffered all the human
rights related problems during the Azerbaijan-imposed war.

Deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Slava Asryan says that
human rights protection is the first thing the world community takes
into account when forming opinion of a state.

The conferees pointed out that the Azeri authorities committed mass
violations of human rights in Karabakh during both the Soviet times
and the Karabakh war. It was due mostly to the activities of
international humanitarian organizations particularly ICRC that many
lives were saved and the war was not turned into a bloody mess.