Families of people missing in connection with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will gather in five Azerbaijani cities, Shamkir, Ganja, Aghjabadi, Barda and Baku from 25 to 30 August to commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told Trend News on Aug. 25.
Fifteen years have passed since the signature of the ceasefire agreement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict but the fate of over 4,500 missing persons is still not clarified.
“We invited them to bring an object that the missing person used or liked very much, which had a special meaning to him or her, and to share anecdotes related to it,” says Jelena Milosevic Lepotic, the tracing delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Baku.
“The idea is to show that every missing person is an individual with his own life, job, family, leisure and tastes – that he played an instrument or participated in sports, and was a member of the community.”
Pictures of the items presented in the five cities and stories of the persons they belong to will later be published in a booklet by the ICRC. During the event, families of missing people will also have the opportunity to benefit from the expertise of representatives of local non-governmental organizations providing legal, social and psychological assistance.
Lepotic supports the efforts of the Azerbaijani authorities to fulfil their obligations under international humanitarian law.
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