ARF Youth raises Artsakh ethnic cleansing, hostage issues at IUSY meeting in Beirut

From Oct. 26 to 31, 2026, the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) Mediterranean Committee Meeting took place in Beirut, Lebanon, alongside a joint event organized with the MENA LATINA Network. Both gatherings were hosted by Lebanon’s Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO). ARF Youth was represented by Pakrad Krikorian and Cherylyne Dirasouyan of the ARF Zavarian Student Organisation. The MENA LATINA event brought together progressive youth organizations, activists and political figures from the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America. The Mediterranean Committee convened IUSY member organisations from Armenia, Palestine, Greece, Lebanon, Morocco, Spain, Kurdistan (northern Iraq), Tunisia, Turkey and Western Sahara, among others. The program included meetings with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, government ministers and leaders of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), PYO’s mother party.

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