UN discussions on Garabagh conflict ‘will depend on peace talks’

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
June 28 2005

Baku, June 27, AssA-Irada — Azerbaijan is still to ascertain whether
or not the a draft resolution on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper Garabagh
conflict will be put on discussion at the UN General Assembly in
August, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has said.

Mammadyarov said the discussions will depend on the process of peace
talks. “If we achieve progress in talks, the situation will certainly
change. In this case, we will re-work the document,” he said.

Azerbaijan achieved putting the issue of illegal settlement of
Armenians in the occupied regions of Azerbaijan on the UN General
Assembly agenda in 2004. The discussions were followed by a visit of
the OSCE fact-finding mission to Upper Garabagh.*