2 December 2019
Oleg Slizhevsky, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, Chairman of the Commission on Implementation of International Humanitarian Law under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, and George Drndarski, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mission in the Republic of Belarus, delivered a welcoming speech at the opening of the Seventh Regional Seminar on Implementation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The Seminar was jointly organized by the ICRC Regional Delegation to the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova and the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus.
Actual challenges in the field of humanitarian activities, restoration of family ties, protection of cultural property during an armed conflict, protection of personal data as a means of protecting individual rights – these and many other issues were discussed in Minsk between 29 and 31 October 2019 by representatives of the Ministries of Justice, Foreign Affairs, Defence, Culture, Healthcare from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, as well as by experts of the ICRC, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Ukraine.
As Oleg Slizhevsky stressed, Belarus consistently pursues a policy of a peaceful State, a safe and reliable neighbour and a mediator in the settlement of disputes. As part of the work of the Commission on the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, work is being done to ensure the proper implementation of international humanitarian law, legal education and the dissemination of knowledge of international humanitarian law.
In turn, George Drndarski praised the degree and effectiveness of cooperation between the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, the reliability and strategic content of joint activities in the field of international humanitarian law.
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