Armenia criticizes new UN resolution

Armenia’s Foreign Ministry has warned Azerbaijan against trying to push a fresh resolution accusing Yerevan of occupying Azerbaijani lands through the United Nations General Assembly, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL, reported Thursday on its website.

The ministry said such a move would hamper a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno Karabakh issue.

The draft resolution, which the General Assembly is expected to discuss on Sept. 9, upholds the right of Azerbaijanis “expelled” from Karabakh and the Armenian-controlled territories surrounding it to return to their homes. It also urges the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, to send a fact-finding mission to the conflict zone to investigate the conflict parties’ compliance with “international humanitarian law.”

Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan said the document, if adopted, would cause “serious damage” to international efforts to end the Nagorno Karabakh dispute. Armenian diplomats are now trying to prevent its passage, Balayan said, adding that Yerevan continues to believe that no international bodies except the OSCE Minsk Group should be involved in the search for a solution to the conflict.

“There is no way it won’t pass,” predicted Aleksandr Arzumanian, an opposition leader who headed the Armenian mission at the UN in the early 1990s. “The General Assembly statutes are such that even if five countries vote for and all others abstain, a resolution is deemed adopted. In such cases, most countries usually abstain.”

Source: Hurriyet
URL: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=armenia-criticizes-new-un-resolution-2010-08-27

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