UN PASSES RESOLUTION ON SITUATION IN OCCUPIED PARTS OF AZERBAIJAN
ITAR-TASS
March 14 2008
Russia
UNITED NATIONS, March 14 (Itar-Tass) – Following an initiative of
the Azerbaijani delegation, the UN General Assembly has endorsed
a resolution titled on the situation on the occupied territories
of Azerbaijan.
The document was supported by delegations of 39 countries, while 7
countries voted against it and another 100 countries abstained from
voting, said Janos Tisovszky, the press secretary of the General
Assembly’ s President.
The resolution voices grave concern over the continuing armed
conflict in Azerbaijan’s enclave of Nagorny Karabakh, which is mostly
populated by ethnic Armenians, saying it continues to pose threat
to international peace and security and affects the humanitarian
situation in the countries of Southern Caucasus.
The resolutions endorsed by the General Assembly are advisory documents
and do not have the power of international laws unlike the resolutions
passed by the UN Security Council.