POLITICS
AZERI OMBUDSWOMAN MEETS BELGIAN SENATE`S HONORARY PRESIDENT
Baku, September 19 (AZERTAC). Azerbaijan`s Human Rights Commissioner Elmira Suleymanova met Friday visiting honorary president of the Belgian Senate Anne-Marie Lizin.
Suleymanova said ensuring human rights and freedoms was one of the main directions of democratic development in her country.
She also touched upon the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict saying for 21 years Armenia has been continuing to occupy twenty percent of Azerbaijan`s territories. Suleymanova also added Armenia carried out ethnic cleansing policy against Azerbaijanis.
It was also stressed during the meeting that mediation efforts by international organizations including the UN and OSCE had not yielded positive results.