UN RESOLUTION ON KARABAKH CONFLICT UNILATERAL, NON-BALANCED, ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS
ARKA
March 19, 2008
YEREVAN, March 19. /ARKA/. The Azeri-drafted resolution on Karabakh
adopted by the UN General Assembly on March 14 is unilateral and
non-balanced, the RA Foreign Ministry reports.
With a vote of 39 to seven, the UN General Assembly adopted the
resolution on the Karabakh conflict. However, only 39 out of 192
members voted for it.
100 member-countries abstained from voting for the resolution that
demands Armenian forces withdraw from the occupied territories of
Azerbaijan.
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, a committee of countries working
to bring about a peaceful resolution of the Karabakh conflict, voted
against the resolution.
This document is nothing but Azerbaijan’s desire that has nothing to
do with current negotiations, according to Tigran Balayan, head of
the RA Foreign Ministry’s Media and Public Relations Department.
He believes Azerbaijan is aware of this fact. "Both the Co-Chairs of
the OSCE Minsk Group and world community are aware of it, and the
recent voting in the UN general Assembly was a testimony to this,"
Balayan was quoted as saying.
According to the media department head, Azerbaijan had planned to take
advantage of the resolution, but it did not happen. In his opinion,
Azerbaijan is paving the way for avoiding the current negotiations
mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group.