Artsakh Human Rights Ombudsman Ruben Melikyan speaking at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations
Melikyan Presents Detailed Atrocities Report from Azerbaijan’s 2016 Four Day War against Artsakh
WASHINGTON—Artsakh Human Rights Ombudsman Ruben Melikyan outlined the work of his office and presented the findings of its latest report on Azerbaijani war crimes and atrocities committed during the four-day April 2016 war to public policy leaders at a forum sponsored by the Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR) at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), reported the Armenian Legal Center for Justice and Human Rights (ALC).
CTR’s Benedikt Harzl, an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow in Central European Studies at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and assistant professor of international law at the University of Graz, hosted the March 15th discussion. In his introductory remarks, Prof. Harzl noted the lack of a harmonized and unified approach to conflict resolution involving de facto states as one of the reasons these situations continue to fester and the importance of hearing the voices from these entities.
Harzl explained that a crucial question revolves around “what role should be afforded de facto states in the course of conflict resolutionâ€
