GUAM POSTPONES DISCUSSION OF RESOLUTION "ON FROZEN CONFLICTS" AT UN

Yerevan, December 4. ArmInfo. The issue on "frozen conflicts" that
was submitted to the discussion of UN General Assembly by GUAM will
not be considered today on December 4. Permanent Representative of
Armenia at UN Armen Martirosyan told RFE/RL that that a coordination
meeting of GUAM took place in Georgia and the Ambassadors of GUAM
states to UN informed him that the discussion of the issue has been
postponed till next year.

To recap, 16 countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Turkey, Great Britain and the USA, voted for submission of the
initiative to the consideration of UN General Assembly. 15 countries,
including Armenia, Russia, Greece, Algeria, Indonesia and South African
Republic voted against the discussion of the initiative by the General
Assembly. A. Martirosyan said the postponement was not accidental as
the document is rather disputable, in his opinion. It is at least
difficult if not impossible to discuss 4 different conflicts under
one resolution. Especially when its authors tried to find the keys
to 4 conflicts in one resolution, A. Martirosyan said.

He added that the attitude of the UN to the document is "very careful."