ArmInfo.Human rights should be protected regardless of where the person is located. Residents of Artsakh and the so-called "gray zones" have the same rights as all the others. The Human Rights Defender of Armenia Arman Tatoyan stated this at a press conference on November 16.
He considered it necessary for the Human Rights Defender of Artsakh to participate in international events for the protection of human rights. However, as Tatoyan stressed, representatives of Azerbaijan are against this perspective. "Despite this, the PACE recently adopted a resolution related to human rights in the" gray zones ", which clearly comes from the interests of the people of Artsakh," the ombudsman concluded. To note in October 2018, the PACE adopted a resolution on "Unlimited Access by the monitoring bodies of the Council of Europe and the United Nations on human rights, in the member countries of these organizations, as well as in the" gray zones. "The head of the Armenian delegation to the PACE, Deputy President of the Armenian Parliament Arpine Hovhannisyan noted that the purpose of this resolution is to protect human rights in the unrecognized republics, including in Nagorno-Karabakh through the introduction of monitoring tools in them. Human rights should be protected no matter where the person is.