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YEREVAN, DECEMBER 10, ARMENPRESS: Raul de Luzenberger, head of the EU delegation to Armenia, met today with students of Yerevan State University. He delivered an open lecture on ‘No to Discrimination as a Priority of EU policy’.
The lecture was organized by the YSU Center for European Studies (CES) within the framework of the ‘Establishment of Regional Master’s Program in Human Rights and Democratization’. MA students of the CES and faculties of law and international relations partook in the lecture. The event was dedicated to the 62nd anniversary of adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly.
The day is marked in various states of the world. Arthur Ghazinyan, head of the CES, says it is gratifying that the day is being marked in Armenia as well. ‘Since the independence of Armenia, the EU has been investing in the development of human rights and democracy in our country,’ he said.
Raul de Lucenberger says EU endeavors to support peace and stability in all over the world and ‘in this matter the EU has been true to its values’.
‘In the 1950s, 6 states gathered and united several directions of the state policy: economy was the primary direction,’ Ambassador Raul de Luzenberger said. He added that for this reason some described the EU as an ‘economic giant, but a political dwarf’.
‘European states initiated a consistent march, which transformed the continent from focus of wars into a continent of peace,’ Raul de Luzenberger said.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly December 10, 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are entitled. The EU promotes the protection of human rights both within its frontiers and in the relations with other states.
