Today the two-day conference organized by the South Caucasian countries, Russia and UNESCO with the theme «For the sake of tolerance, against discrimination and xenophobia in the context of combat against international terrorism» finished in Yerevan. At the end of the day a joint declaration was adopted which was read by the RA ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan.

In the declaration a special place was given to the Mass Media, as according to the lawyers from different countries, the combat against encroachments against national minorities or xenophobia between nations will be efficient only with proper work of the MM.

Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan was surprised at the highlighting of the international conference. Her working group had informed almost all the MM in Armenia, but for the past two days 2-3 journalists were present at the event.

«I think this is surprising for our guests too. I expected more interest towards our conference. Our authorities take active participation in all the international events. In this connection the passiveness of the journalists was surprising as it ought to have been vice versa», commented Alaverdyan to «A1+».

Let us also remind you that a non-official representative of Azerbaijan was also present at the conference. He had been in friendly relations with Armenian colleagues, and to day conducted the event with fluent Russian.