ArmInfo.On October 12, RA NA President Alen Simonyan received Head of the Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Armenia Thierry Ribaux, the press service of the RA NA reports.
Alen Simonyan attached importance to the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Armenia and noted that he is ready to make every effort to effectively and quickly resolve a number of problems.
In turn, Thierry Ribaux presented the main goals and directions of the Committee's activities, elaborated on the ICRC's mission in connection with the Artsakh conflict, especially over the past year. The parties discussed issues related to Armenian prisoners of war held by Azerbaijan and missing persons, they also touched upon the humanitarian situation in Artsakh after the 44-day war.
Thierry Ribaux, noted that representatives of the body periodically meet with the families of the victims, missing persons as well as prisoners of war, monitor the conditions of detention of our compatriots in Azerbaijan, making periodic visits.
To note, the ICRC carries out exclusively de-political activity referring to the conflict, working the in the region since 1992 through its offices in Yerevan, Baku and Nagorno Karabakh.