Zoya Stepanyan

Career Diplomat, Head of International Human Rights Cooperation Division @MFAofArmenia

[Armenia Mission to UN @ArmeniaUN]

Candidate from #Armenia Mushegh Hovsepyan has been elected to @UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities from among 15 candidates, marking the first time Armenian expert will serve on #CRPD.
🇦🇲 remains committed to advancing the rights of persons with disabilities.

[MFA of Armenia🇦🇲 @MFAofArmenia]

The biennial resolution on “Prevention of Genocide”, tabled by #Armenia🇦🇲 at #HRC61, has been unanimously adopted!

It addresses challenges such as misuse of algorithmic systems & AI, & calls for integration of prevention as system-wide, cross-pillar priority in context of #UN80.

[Robert Abisoghomonyan @RAbisoghomonyan]

Had a warm & meaningful meeting w/ Christine Weigand of @unicefarmenia as she concludes her mission in #Armenia.

🤝 Grateful for her leadership & dedication to strengthening the protection of children’s rights. Wishing her every success ahead.

[Armenia Mission to UN @ArmeniaUN]

At 🇺🇳 PrepComm, Armenia 🇦🇲 supported the elaboration of a Convention on Crimes against Humanity, emphasizing complementarity with existing legal & judicial frameworks and its efforts to advance cooperation & synergy for the prevention of genocide, #CAH and other atrocity crimes.

[Zoya Stepanyan @ZoyaStepanyan]

“Today, we are fully determined to continue to accelerate actions, policies and partnerships to advance the cause of prevention, as a tribute to our past, as a duty towards victims of the ongoing wars and conflicts and as a promise for a future free from the odious scourge”.

[Robert Abisoghomonyan @RAbisoghomonyan]

Honored to deliver remarks at high lvl meeting on #GenocidePreventionDay,
initiated by #Armenia 🇦🇲.

💬 Genocide prevention efforts should be grounded in systematic, institutionalised & coherent early warning & early action frameworks at all levels.

https://t.co/KlvZjuzQtO

[Robert Abisoghomonyan @RAbisoghomonyan]

Honored to deliver remarks at high lvl meeting on #GenocidePreventionDay,
initiated by #Armenia 🇦🇲.

💬 Genocide prevention efforts should be grounded in systematic, institutionalised & coherent early warning & early action frameworks at all levels.

https://t.co/KlvZjuzQtO

[Robert Abisoghomonyan @RAbisoghomonyan]

November 8 | New York

Delivered remarks at side event on early warning and action for genocide and atrocity prevention organized by #Armenia 🇦🇲 & @UNOSAPG 🇺🇳. Highlighted Armenia’s continued commitment to reinforcing UN prevention mechanisms & enhancing cooperation across them.

[Embassy and Permanent Mission of Armenia in Vienna @ARMEmbVienna]

Ambassador Andranik Hovhannisyan was elected Chair of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs. An honour for #Armenia 🇦🇲 to lead the UN’s principal drug-policy body.
We are committed to promote dialogue, mutual respect & constructive engagement at #CND69.

[Robert Abisoghomonyan @RAbisoghomonyan]

At @FO_Coalition Ministerial on building digitally inclusive future for all, reaffirmed 🇦🇲 commit. to human-rights-based digit’l transfom., promoting openness, accountab’y & inclusion in digit’l space.

💬Together, we can ensure that digital progress benefits everyone,everywhere.

[MFA of Armenia🇦🇲 @MFAofArmenia]

The @UN General Assembly 🇺🇳 adopted by consensus a resolution initiated by #Armenia 🇦🇲, marking 10th anniversary of International Day of Commemoration & Dignity of Victims of Genocide. It calls for high-level meeting to advance global efforts for prevention & punishment of genocide.
Memory. Dignity. Prevention.

[Robert Abisoghomonyan @RAbisoghomonyan]

May 26 |@YerevanDialogue

Side event on “Digital Public Infrastructure for Resilience & Inclusion: Advancing Human Rights Online” was co-hosted by @MFAofArmenia, @MFAestonia & @FO_Coalition. Grateful to all participants for contributions & engagement in this important initiative.

[MFA of Armenia🇦🇲 @MFAofArmenia]

On April 10, 1992, the #Armenia|n civilians of the village of #Maragha were subjected to complete ethnic cleansing: more than 50 civilians, including 30 women, were killed by the #Azerbaijan|i forces, while the population of 5000 was forcibly displaced. 29 women & 9 children were taken hostage, the fate of 19 is still unknown.

These atrocities were well documented in the reports of @hrw & @amnesty. The patterns of behavior that led to the Maragha massacre – ethnic hatred, impunity, glorification of war crimes, the destruction of Armenian cultural sites & forced displacement – were earlier witnessed during the 1988-1990 pogroms of Armenians in Sumgait, Kirovabad & Baku, & elsewhere.

Today, as we pay tribute to the victims of pogroms in Maragha, we recall that prevention of such atrocities & achieving lasting peace requires abandoning hate speech & promoting respect for fundamental human rights.

[Armenia Mission to UN @ArmeniaUN]

🇦🇲🇺🇳 #Armenia was elected to the Executive Board of #UNDP/#UNFPA/#UNOPS for the term 2026-2028. Armenia will put its utmost effort to support & contribute to the work of EB for the benefit of #2030Agenda, & inclusive, effective & sustainable development in programme countries.

[JAMANAK/ԺԱՄԱՆԱԿ @JAMANAK3]

https://t.co/QJ7fqzDaCN

[Yeghishe Kirakosyan @YeghisheK]

1/3🧵 #ICJ decided it has jurisdiction to entertain #Armenia| s 🇦🇲 claims of murder, torture, inhumane treatment, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions during and following the 2020-2023 war

[Armenia Mission to UN @ArmeniaUN]

Expressing support to the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food,🇦🇲 condemns violations of this fundamental right, shares the SP’s concern over the growing use of #starvation.The blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh is among such examples, as the latest report indicates.

[Armenia in Geneva @Armembsuisse]

Today, @UNHumanRights published a joint communication from 4 @UN_SPExperts addressed to #Azerbaijan regarding “enforced disappearance of 23 Armenian soldiers and one civilian” in October 2020, “followed by torture and unlawful killing of some of them”
https://t.co/hajRtD5ub4

[Armenia in Geneva @Armembsuisse]

UN Committee Against Torture expressed deep concern by reports on severe and grave violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law committed by Azerbaijani military forces against Armenian POWs, killings, beheadings, torture, mutilation. https://t.co/QnnaS4dR9u

[Armenia in The Hague @armembnl]

On the Remembrance Day of the #ArmenianGenocide 🇦🇲’s legal team stands before the ICJ to reiterate that the remembrance is not only about past. We fight legal battles to ensure #NeverAgain the rights of people will be violated because of their race or the group they represent.

[Armenia in The Hague @armembnl]

Armenia will present its preliminary objections in the case concerning Application of the ICERD Azerbaijan v. #Armenia at 10:00 before the #ICJ. Watch live: https://t.co/zElo2XaFv9