Armenian minister says UN debates on Karabakh Azerbaijan’s “mistake”

Mediamax news agency
23 Nov 04

Yerevan, 23 November: Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Margherita
Boniver said in Yerevan today that the European Union member countries
would in all likelihood abstain in the vote on a draft resolution
“On the situation on occupied Azerbaijani territories” at a UN General
Assembly session.

Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan today said that “Azerbaijan
is making a mistake by initiating the discussion of this issue at the
UN, and after a while, it will understand its mistake”. At the same
time, the Armenian foreign minister said that “we are not concerned
that the resolution might be adopted, we are more concerned at the
further fate of the political process of settlement of the Nagornyy
Karabakh conflict”.

Commenting on a proposal to dispatch a multinational mission of
observers to the occupied territories, which is envisaged in the
Azerbaijani draft resolution, Oskanyan recalled that Yerevan and
Stepanakert [Xankandi] had been recently urging the international
community to send a mission and put an end to Azerbaijan’s ungrounded
accusations.

“The Armenian and Karabakh authorities are ready to render every
assistance to the activities of such a mission. However, the OSCE
Minsk Group itself has a mandate to dispatch such a mission and
in this case, the decision should not be adopted at the UN level,”
the Armenian foreign minister added.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress