Bern hosts parliamentary hearings on Nagorno Karabakh conflict

March 18, 2011 - 20:54 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - According to the Permanent Mission of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic to France, on March 16, on the initiative of Switzerland-Armenia parliamentary group, parliamentary hearings on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict was organized in Bern, in which prominent experts from Germany and France took part.

The hearings’ participants listened with great interest to the following speeches: Tessa Hoffman (Berlin) – ‘The conflict's chronology and issues related to human rights’, doctor Gerard Gergerian (Paris) – ‘The notions of territorial integrity and rights of nations in international law’, doctor Otto Lukterhand (Berlin) – ‘The right of Nagorno Karabakh to self-determination’, and doctor Julienne Zarifian (Paris) - ‘The future of Nagorno Karabakh: possible developments and their geopolitical consequences’.

Deputies of the Federal Assembly, representatives of the Foreign Ministry of Switzerland, as well as NKR Permanent Representative to France Hovhannes Gevorkian attended the hearings.

On the initiative of ‘Switzerland-Armenia’ parliamentary group, a booklet comprising the experts’ speeches, as well as maps and photos on the NKR everyday life will be published, the NKR MFA press service reported.

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