(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 12. Azerbaijan took
part in the first high-level meeting of the Global Alliance for the
Missing in Geneva, organized by the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) and Switzerland, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry
told Trend .
The Global Alliance for the Missing was launched on 11 May 2021
on the margins of the 150th anniversary of the Central Tracing
Agency by ICRC President Peter Maurer and Swiss Secretary of State
Livia Leu.
The Ministry noted that Azerbaijan joined the alliance in
January 2022 on the basis of an appeal from ICRC President Peter
Maurer, as well as cooperation with the Committee, and providing
technical support in gathering information on persons who went
missing since the 1990s.
The first meeting of the Global Alliance for the Missing was
held on April 7, 2022. It was attended by representatives of ten
Member States (Azerbaijan, Argentina, Estonia, Kuwait, Mexico,
Nigeria, Norway, Peru, the Republic of Korea, and Switzerland),
said the statement.
The meeting was opened by Vice-President of the ICRC Gilles
Carbonnier, who emphasized that the number of missing persons in
the world has increased by 75 percent over the past five years,
reaching 173,800 people.
According to him, the Global Alliance for the Missing was
established to raise awareness of the question of missing persons,
and promote the implementation of global commitments relating to
this issue.
The event was attended by representatives of Azerbaijan's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the diplomatic mission in Geneva.
Participants were given details of the work carried out at the
national level, including clarifying the fate of the missing,
identifying human remains in the mass grave of Bashlibel village,
as well as the discovery of mass graves in the villages of
Dashalti, Edilli, Sirkhavand, and Farrukh.
Representatives of Azerbaijan stated that mines impeded the
identification of human remains in the liberated lands, as well as
talked about the efforts of the country to grab the attention of
the international community, and also outlined the Resolution 'On
Missing Persons' adopted by the UN General Assembly in this
regard.
They expressed the hope that the Global Alliance for the Missing
will draw global attention to the importance of clarifying the fate
of the missing and make a significant contribution to cooperation
in this area.
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- Azerbaijan
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- mines
- Azerbaijan's liberated territories
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