CoE Commissioner: Mines continue to kill even after end of hostilities

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic, calls on to cooperation and engagement in the necessary exchange of data so as to facilitate the demining process in the liberated Azerbaijani territories, reads a memorandum published by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights one year after the signing of the trilateral statement which ended the 2020 outbreak of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Report informs.

The Commissioner is aware of the high level of contamination of the region by mines and explosive remnants of war and regrets that since the cessation of the hostilities, many persons, including civilians, have been killed or seriously injured due to the explosion of mines.

She also calls on the Armenian and Azerbaijani authorities to ratify the UN Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) and its relevant protocols.