On June 5, the employees of HCA Vanadzor met with Leo Platvoet
00:00, June 10, 2006 | The Rights of Conflict Victims
On June 5, the employees of HCA Vanadzor met with Leo Platvoet – reporter of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population, dealing with issues on missing persons of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan and Mark Neville-Secretary of Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population of the Parliamentary Assembly.
During the discussion the coordinator of HCA Vanadzor Arthur Sakunts and Pascal Bokkers International Advisor from IKV to South Caucasus presented the projects and activities carried out by HCA Vanadzor on the problems of missing persons, as well as approaches for the solution of those problems. A. Sakunts mentioned the importance of the contribution of European and national mechanisms in the solution of missing persons’ issues.
The necessity of more detailed investigation of the circumstances people were missed was pointed out. It will give an opportunity for getting information on their whereabouts and destiny more effectively. Particularly, some missing persons should be looked for not in the opposite side but in our own territories.
Importance was attached to the active involvement of the Council of Europe in the protection of the rights of missing persons and their relatives of South Caucasus .
The draft law “On Information Bureau of Missing Person” worked out by HCA Vanadzor was presented which met an approval.