BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 10. Azerbaijan delivered
a joint statement on behalf of the cross-regional group of 19
states (Albania, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Cambodia, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman,
Pakistan, Panama, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Timor-Leste,
erbaijan) during the general debate of the 19th session of the
Conference of State Parties (COSP19) to the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the Permanent Mission
of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United Nations wrote on its
page on X.
“The joint statement underscored that around 15% of the world’s
population lives with disabilities and stressed the need to ensure
CRPD’s human rights protection for persons with disabilities in all
circumstances, including those in conflict and post-conflict
settings affected by mines, explosive remnants of war (ERW) and
improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
The participating states called for accelerated international
support to advance disability prevention in conflict and
post-conflict settings, particularly through the establishment,
development and effective functioning of national mine-action
capacities. They also emphasized the need to strengthen national
capacities for emergency and continuing medical care, physical
rehabilitation and prosthetics, education and economic
reintegration for all persons with disabilities,” the Permanent
Mission wrote.