HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CALLED EU TO PRESS ON ARMENIA, GEORGIA AND AZERBAIJAN
The European Union should press for concrete benchmarks on torture, freedom of expression and other key human rights issues on Monday when it holds ministerial-level meetings with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, Human Rights Watch said today. The European Union is holding these annual meetings in Brussels under the framework of its Partnership and Cooperation Agreements with the three countries. Under its European Neighborhood Policy, the European Union is currently negotiating “action plans” with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia that will set concrete benchmarks for progress in a range of areas, including human rights. Closer economic, social and cultural ties with the European Union will depend on whether countries fulfill the benchmarks, giving the European Union significant leverage on human rights issues in the countries of the south Caucasus, Human Rights Watch said. “This meeting gives the European Union a unique opportunity to press Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia for concrete progress on human rights,” said Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “EU governments should not miss this chance to encourage tangible improvements on human rights in these countries.” “EU cooperation with the South Caucasus countries needs to include a public acknowledgment of ongoing human rights problems,” said Cartner. “Without admitting that human rights violations exist in these countries, the European Union cannot expect to address them in a meaningful way.”
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The European Union should press for concrete benchmarks on torture, freedom of expression and other key human rights issues on Monday when it holds ministerial-level meetings with Armenia, Azerbaijan ...
ARMENIA AND BULGARIA SIGNED MEMORANDUM ON COOPERATION IN EURO-ATLANTIC STRUCTURES
ARMENIA-NATO IPAP DISCUSSED IN BRUSSELS
ARMENIA SQUARE FOUNDED IN SAO JOSE DO RIO PRETO, BRAZIL
BRATISLAVA TO MARK ANNIVERSARY OF RESOLUTION CENSURING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
KARABAKH CONFLICT DISCUSSED AT OIC SUMMIT IN MECCA
KOCHARIAN AND PUTIN TO MEET SOON
PROJECT OF BUILDING HRAZDAN THERMAL POWER PLANT 5TH BLOCK LAUNCHED
SECOND MURDER OF ARMENIAN CITIZEN IN MOSCOW THIS WEEK
IRANIAN PRESIDENT PROPOSED ISRAEL BE MOVED TO EUROPE
ARMENIAN LEADER TOOK PART IN PILOT LAUNCHING OF ARMENAL MODERNIZED PLANT
- 0 Kaghots was the 5th month in the old Armenian calendar (from December 9 to January 7). People connected this name with the Armenian for "pick". Acharian thought that this word was connected with the month when animals bred.
- 1867 New legal system established in Transcaucasia.
- 1883 Birth of Hakob Oshakan. He died in 1883.
- 1918 Start of the Armenian-Georgian three-week war over the Armenian Province of Javakhk.
- 1948 The General Assembly of the UN adopts the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This crime is deemed to have no statute of limitations.
- 1958 Death of Academician Levon Orbeli (physiologist) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). He was born in 1882.
- 1970 Death of Artem Mikoyan, Armenian air-craft designer. He was born in 1905.
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