Today, Azerbaijan
March 15 2008
Armenian Foreign Minister: "I hope the results of voting will be a
signal to Azerbaijan from the international community"
15 March 2008 [14:08] – Today.Az
The results of UN voting on the draft resolution on Nagorno Karabakh
have become a specific barometer of mood in the international
community.
The due announcement is contained in the comment of Armenia’s
Foreign Ministry regarding discussions of the document, presented to
Azerbaijan.
In the result, only 39 states, representing GUAM and Organization of
Islamic Conference, supported the resolution. OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs including the United States, France and Russia, as well as
Armenia and a number of other countries, voted against it and over
150 countries preferred to abstain from voting", the comment says.
"I hope the results of voting will be a signal for Azerbaijan from
the side of the international community", Armenian Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanyan said adding that most UN member-states rejected the
unilateral approach to this issue.
The Armenian Foreign Minister assessed Azerbaijan’s resolution as
hypocritical. On the one hand, the document, presented by official
Baku, is an attempt to mislead the world community, and on the other
hand, the resolution contains a paragraph about support of mediation
efforts of the OSCE MInsk Group co-chairs, who had previously
disagreed with the presented document and voted against it.
The Armenian Foreign Minister are concerned with the further actions
of official Baku. The issue is whether Azerbaijan will further
undermine the peaceful process and sit at a negotiation table.
The Foreign Minister again confirmed the readiness of Serzh
Sarkissyan, newly elected president of Armenia, to meet with
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev upon agreement of the latter and
the OSCE Minsk Group. Vardan Oskanyan said this is possible and added
that by rejecting Azerbaijan’s resolution the international community
demonstrated support for the document which is on the negotiation
table and which allows to attain bring closer the principles of the
right of peoples for self-determination and territorial integrity of
the states, initially seeming differing.
"This document gives an impetus to the negotiation process between
Armenia and Azerbaijan", the Armenian Foreign Minister said.
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