MARLEN HAAS CONDEMNS DETERMINATION OF AZERI WOMEN TO AWARD MURDERER
RAMIL SAFAROV WITH HERO’S STATUS

YEREVAN, MARCH 10. ARMINFO. Marlen Haas, Secretary General of
Socialist International Women organization, condemned the Azeri women
who make a national hero out of Ramil Safarov, murderer of Gourgen
Margarian, Armenian officer, at today’s press conference in Yerevan.

As for the women’s participation in the public life, she said that the
situation in Armenia is much better than in neighbouring
countries. She said that the situation of the women’s rights in
Armenia has been considerably improved for the last few
years.Nevertheless, she stated that the violence over women is still
one of the urgent problems in Armenia. Haas also expressed concern
about the large number of unemployed women, the decrease of birth rate
in Armenia.

In her turn, Maria Titizian, representative of ARF “Dashnaktsiutiun”
in Socintern, said that the membership of her party to this
organization helps put forward urgent problems of Armenia at the
international level. She emphasized that they discussed the issue of
annihilated Armenian Middle Age Cross Stones in Nakhijevan at the
latest sitting of the organization.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress