FOREIGN MINISTRY OF ARMENIA HOPES VOTE TO RESOLUTION ON KARABAKH IN UN WILL BE A SIGNAL TO AZERBAIJAN
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17-03-2008 10:20:16
The outcome of the vote to the resolution on Nagorno-Karabakh in
the UN "was a peculiar barometer of the mood of the international
community," runs the release of the Armenian ministry of foreign
affairs on the resolution presented by the Azerbaijani side. "Only
39 states voted for the resolution which represented GUAM and the
Islamic Conference Organization. The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on
behalf of the United States, France and Russia, as well as Armenia
and a number of other countries voted against the resolution, over
150 countries abstained or did not participate in the vote at all,"
runs the release of the ministry.
"I hope the outcome of the vote will be a signal to Azerbaijan from
the international community," said the Armenian foreign minister
Vardan Oskanyan, adding that the majority of the UN countries reject
one-sided approach to this issue. The Armenian foreign minister
described the resolution of Azerbaijan as hypocritical. On the
one hand, the document presented by official Baku is an effort
to misinform the international community, on the other hand, the
resolution includes a provision which endorses the efforts of the
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs who had spelled out disagreement with the
resolution and voted against it. The foreign minister of Armenia is
now interested in further actions of official Baku. The question is
whether Azerbaijan will continue to hinder the peace process or will
sit at the table of talks. The head of the Armenian foreign ministry
reasserted the readiness of the president elect of Armenia Serge
Sargsyan to meet with the head of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in case
the latter and the OSCE Minsk Group agree. "There is a possibility,"
said Oskanyan, adding that by rejecting the resolution presented by
Azerbaijan the international community showed that they support the
document which is on the table of the talks and which allows bringing
closer the right of people for self-determination and territorial
integrity which seem controversial at first sight. "This document
allows Armenian and Azerbaijan advancing in the talks," says the
minister of foreign affairs of Armenia, Arminfo reports.