Foreign Minister delivers speech at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

Mikheil Janelidze, Foreign Minister of Georgia spoke about progress that Georgia achieved in terms of human rights protection over the past few years during the speech he delivered at the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. 

Janelidze also focused on the Government’s human rights action plan and initiatives. The importance of involving the civil society in these processes was also highlighted, Georgia’s Foreign Ministry reports.

Janelidze thanked the High Commissioner for Human Rights for bringing to the attention of the Council the alarming situation in Georgia’s occupied regions at the last session. According to him, Despite the Georgian government’s efforts, the humanitarian and human rights situation in both occupied regions of Georgia remains of grave concern, “especially when no international monitoring mechanisms, including the UN human rights machinery, are allowed to the regions” – the Minister said. 

The 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council is held in Geneva on 27 and 28 February. The Georgian Foreign Minister met the Swiss Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs the U.N. and the High Commissioner for Refugees. Within the framework of his visit, Mikheil Janelidze also holds bilateral meetings with the foreign ministers of various countries.