The European Ombudsman Institute is the structure that immediately condemned the Azerbaijani atrocities during the April war.
The Azerbaijani ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova made a scandal at the general conference of European ombudsmen. The unprecedented voting and the humanistic speech at the conference of Ruben Melikyan, her colleague from Artsakh, angered her. The lady tried to make political announcement, but she was politely silenced. The European Ombudsman Institute is the structure that immediately condemned the Azerbaijani atrocities during the April war and strictly criticized Lapshin’s case.