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Svetlana Gannushkina, Moskau 109 028, Pokrovskij Bulvar 14/5, kv. 19
ô.: +7 / 095 / 917 89 61
Fax: +7 / 095 / 917 89 61
E-Mail: [email protected]
Paata Zakareishvili
Tbilisi 380008, ul. Bratjev Kakabadse, 16/2
T. +995-32-997531
[email protected]
Bernhard Clasen, Ludwigstr. 14
41061 Mönchengladbach
T.: 02161 / 205013, Fax: 204056
E-Mail: [email protected]
PRESS RELEASE
International Working Group for Release of Prisoners and Hostages and
Tracing of Missing Persons of the Karabakh Conflict
On 2-3 October 2006 International Working Group for Release of
Prisoners and Hostages and Tracing of Missing Persons of the Karabagh
Conflict (IWG) consisting of its co-chairpersons Svetlana Gannushkina,
Bernhard Clasen and regional coordinators Karine Minasyan, Avaz
Hasanov and Albert Voskanyan visited Council of Europe in
Strasbourg. They met PACE reporter on the issue of the missing in
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia Mr. Leo Platvoet.
On the invitation of the reporter the IWG co-chairpersons and
coordinators participated in the sitting of the PACE Committee on the
issues of migration, refugees and population. During the sitting
Mr. Platvoet made a report regarding his visits to Nagorniy Karabagh
and Abkhazia.
After Mr. Platvoet the IWG co-chairpersons were given the floor. In
their speeches the IWG members shared their experience of work in the
Karabagh conflict zone and proposed to establish an international
mixed commission for tracing the missing under the PACE auspices with
participation of representatives of civil society and government
structures from the conflict region and foreign experts.
The IWG co-chairpersons mentioned that the conflicting parties ought
to undertake certain obligations to secure effective work of the
commission and security of its members. They also highlighted main
principles of work in the conflict zones.
Furthermore the IWG had a number of meetings with parliamentarians of
some European countries and discussed with them human rights problems
in the conflict zones of the North and South Caucasus.
Svetlana Gannushkina Bernhard Clasen
Strasbourg
04.10.2006
ô.: +7 / 095 / 917 89 61
Fax: +7 / 095 / 917 89 61
E-Mail: [email protected]
Paata Zakareishvili
Tbilisi 380008, ul. Bratjev Kakabadse, 16/2
T. +995-32-997531
[email protected]
Bernhard Clasen, Ludwigstr. 14
41061 Mönchengladbach
T.: 02161 / 205013, Fax: 204056
E-Mail: [email protected]
PRESS RELEASE
International Working Group for Release of Prisoners and Hostages and
Tracing of Missing Persons of the Karabakh Conflict
On 2-3 October 2006 International Working Group for Release of
Prisoners and Hostages and Tracing of Missing Persons of the Karabagh
Conflict (IWG) consisting of its co-chairpersons Svetlana Gannushkina,
Bernhard Clasen and regional coordinators Karine Minasyan, Avaz
Hasanov and Albert Voskanyan visited Council of Europe in
Strasbourg. They met PACE reporter on the issue of the missing in
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia Mr. Leo Platvoet.
On the invitation of the reporter the IWG co-chairpersons and
coordinators participated in the sitting of the PACE Committee on the
issues of migration, refugees and population. During the sitting
Mr. Platvoet made a report regarding his visits to Nagorniy Karabagh
and Abkhazia.
After Mr. Platvoet the IWG co-chairpersons were given the floor. In
their speeches the IWG members shared their experience of work in the
Karabagh conflict zone and proposed to establish an international
mixed commission for tracing the missing under the PACE auspices with
participation of representatives of civil society and government
structures from the conflict region and foreign experts.
The IWG co-chairpersons mentioned that the conflicting parties ought
to undertake certain obligations to secure effective work of the
commission and security of its members. They also highlighted main
principles of work in the conflict zones.
Furthermore the IWG had a number of meetings with parliamentarians of
some European countries and discussed with them human rights problems
in the conflict zones of the North and South Caucasus.
Svetlana Gannushkina Bernhard Clasen
Strasbourg
04.10.2006