A photo exhibition "Human Faces, Shared Hopes. The Human Side of Conflict" was opened in Yerevan on Monday.
While opening the event Head of the EU Delegation to Armenia Traian Hristea said that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains one of the key issues for the European Union.
He said that Armenia and Azerbaijan continue suffering from the conflict, with peace being the most cherished thing for people in this region.
Hristea said that the EU wants the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be resolved only peacefully and has therefore launched the second stage of its program with a view to support civil society building and peacemaking in the conflict zone.
Concerning the exhibition representative of International Alert (the UK) Marina Nagai said that at first it was just an idea to portray different people but then it developed into an exhibition in Brussels. Unfortunately, that event received lots of negative comments because most of the visitors wanted to know the nationalities of the people in the pictures, while the goal of the organizers was just to show them the way they were.
Nagai thanked the EU Delegation to Armenia for helping them to bring the exhibition to Armenia.
To remind, In Mar-Apr 2011 International Alert commissioned a series of portraits of people throughout the conflict torn region from international award-winning photographer Jonathan Banks. The aim of the project was to capture faces of different people that vividly represent the human side of the conflict were each individual remains above all a human being with his or her right to be what they are, wherever they live, with dignity and in peace. The initiative was financed by the European Union.
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