YEREVAN, AUGUST 15, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian authorities are deeply concerned about the violence against the Iraqi Yezidis by extremists and share the indignation of Yezidis living in Armenia, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan writes on his Twitter microblog. “The Armenian Missions in the UN and other international organizations have received respective directives to closely cooperate with stakeholders on this issue,” as reports “Armenpress”, writes Balayan. 

On August 8 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharian received the representatives of Yezidi community.

The Yezidis of Armenia presented their concerns about the predicament and humanitarian crisis for dozens of thousands of Yezidis created as a result of persecutions by radical Islamists in Iraq.

Deputy Minister Kocharyan emphasized that Armenian shares the concern of the Yezidi community and noted that in different international arenas Armenia will continue to voice the necessity of stopping violence against ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq and in the Middle East in general, using all its capacities for this goal.