February 26, 2021
One of the five Armenian prisoners of war is being escorted off a plane that landed at Erebuni Airport on Jan. 28
The Secretary General of the European Ombudsman Institute Josef Siegele on Friday called on Azerbaijan to immediately release all Armenian prisoners of war and civilians held in Azerbaijan. The Artsakh Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) welcomed the EIO chief’s appeal.
“Everyone deprived of their liberty for reasons related to the armed conflict should be returned immediately after the cessation of hostilities and without any preconditions,” Siegele said.
“It should be considered exclusively in the context of human rights and the humanitarian process as an international requirement which is to be automatically applied,” he added.
Some 32 countries have called on the world to strengthen international cooperation and multilateralism at the 46th session of Human Rights Council and urged the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to engage in constructive dialogue and engagement in order to perform its functions objectively and impartially.
In Geneva, India Signals to Sri Lanka that Support in UNHRC Is Not a Given
India has a national position against resolutions targeting a single country in multilateral bodies. But, with regard to Sri Lanka, Indiaâs record has been varied, as domestic political factors often dictated its voting decision.
Representative image. A 2006 march to commemorate 1983 killing of Sri Lankan Tamils in Toronto. Photo: Noaman Ali/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
New Delhi: Indicating that New Delhi has kept all options open, India has signalled to Sri Lanka that its support for the country at the United Nations Human Rights Council should not be taken for granted.
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