UN Resolution ON Karabakh Conflict Unilateral, Non-Balanced, Armenian Foreign Ministry Says
20.03.2008,
02:49
The Azeri-drafted resolution on Karabakh adopted by the UN General Assembly on March 14 is unilateral and non-balanced, the RA Foreign Ministry reports.
YEREVAN, March 19. /ARKA/. The Azeri-drafted resolution on Karabakh adopted by the UN General Assembly on March 14 is unilateral and non-balanced, the RA Foreign Ministry reports.
With a vote of 39 to seven, the UN General Assembly adopted the resolution on the Karabakh conflict. However, only 39 out of 192 members voted for it.
100 member-countries abstained from voting for the resolution that demands Armenian forces withdraw from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, a committee of countries working to bring about a peaceful resolution of the Karabakh conflict, voted against the resolution.
This document is nothing but Azerbaijan’s desire that has nothing to do with current negotiations, according to Tigran Balayan, head of the RA Foreign Ministry’s Media and Public Relations Department.
He believes Azerbaijan is aware of this fact. “Both the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group and world community are aware of it, and the recent voting in the UN general Assembly was a testimony to this,” Balayan was quoted as saying.
According to the media department head, Azerbaijan had planned to take advantage of the resolution, but it did not happen. In his opinion, Azerbaijan is paving the way for avoiding the current negotiations mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group.–0—
With a vote of 39 to seven, the UN General Assembly adopted the resolution on the Karabakh conflict. However, only 39 out of 192 members voted for it.
100 member-countries abstained from voting for the resolution that demands Armenian forces withdraw from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, a committee of countries working to bring about a peaceful resolution of the Karabakh conflict, voted against the resolution.
This document is nothing but Azerbaijan’s desire that has nothing to do with current negotiations, according to Tigran Balayan, head of the RA Foreign Ministry’s Media and Public Relations Department.
He believes Azerbaijan is aware of this fact. “Both the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group and world community are aware of it, and the recent voting in the UN general Assembly was a testimony to this,” Balayan was quoted as saying.
According to the media department head, Azerbaijan had planned to take advantage of the resolution, but it did not happen. In his opinion, Azerbaijan is paving the way for avoiding the current negotiations mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group.–0—
