CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL MINORITIES SITUATION IN ARMENIA
armradio.am
15.11.2007 10:32
Armenia’s implementation of its commitments to protect national
minorities is the focus of a two-day conference supported by the OSCE
Office that started in Yerevan November 14.
The event brings together state representatives from more than
fifteen countries to share their experiences of implementing the
Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of
National Minorities.
Silvia Pogolsa, Human Rights Officer at the OSCE Office in Yerevan,
said: "We hope that today’s conference will contribute to Armenia’s
implementation of its commitments and to further improvements of
legislation and state practice in this field."
Hranush Kharatyan, Head of the State Department on Ethnic Minorities
and Religious Affairs, said that the international conference was
aimed at clarifying and finding the best practical implementation of
some provisions of the Convention in Armenia.
The conference was initiated by the Armenian State Department of
Ethnic Minorities and Religious Affairs with support from the OSCE
Office in Yerevan and the Council of Europe.