On October 7th, David Fernández Puyana, Ambassador and Permanent Observer of the University for Peace (UPEACE) to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, delivered a lecture on “The Role of Education in Maintaining Peace and Protecting Human Rights” for the students of the Diplomatic School. Ambassador Puyana spoke about the history of the creation of the University for Peace, about the multilateral diplomacy system, mechanisms countering the violation of the right to peace. He also touched upon the issues of human rights protection and Armenia’s active participation in that matter and answered the questions raised by the students.

The meeting was organized within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding, signed between the Diplomatic School of Armenia and UPEACE in 2021.