BAKU: Fifth Int’l Round-Table Of Ombudsmen Held

FIFTH INT’L ROUND-TABLE OF OMBUDSMEN HELD

Azer Tag
[May 19, 2005, 15:54:22]

Bratislava Regional Center of the United Nations Development Program
(UNDP) has organized a round-table for the Ombudsmen of the European
and CIS countries in the city of Karlovi Vari of the Czech Republic.
Ombudswoman of the Azerbaijan Republic Elmira Suleymanova took part
at the arrangement.

The goal of the action was to exchange experience on human rights
protection and use of methods in restoration of the violated human
rights, organization and use of the recommendations prepared for
improvement of the Ombudsman activity in elimination of discrimination
on national level, and defining of the priorities for support of the
UNDP human rights protection initiatives in 2006-2010s.

At the action, ombudsmen of the Russian Federation, Moldova,
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Georgia,
Armenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina reported on the activity.

During the workshop, Ms. Elmira Suleymanova held significant meetings
with colleagues, and discussed cooperation activities in the human
rights protection field.

The UNDP Regional Office is supposed to render assistance in
compilation of the “National Plan of Activities in the field of Human
Rights Protection” in Azerbaijan.