Press Release
UN’s statement on recent media reports concerning submission and publication of two documents by the Government of Armenia
26 April 2019
- With respect to recent news media reports concerning submission and publication of two documents by the Government of Armenia as document of the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 (Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development), the United Nations would like to clarify that the document in question was an annex to the note verbale to OHCHR (secretariat of the Human Rights Council) from the Government of Armenia.
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