KOSOVO PROBLEM REFRAINED ESTONIA FOR GIVING SUPPORT TO AZERBAIJAN’S INITIATIVE AT UN: VICE SPEAKER
Trend News Agency
April 1 2008
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Baku, 1 April / corr TrendNews S.Agayeva / The Kosovo
problem has affected in the Estonian restraining from its support to
Azerbaijan at the UN General Assembly, Kristiina Ojuland, the Vice
Speaker of the Estonian Parliament, said in talks with the journalists
in Baku on 1 April.
" Estonia has always supported Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and
is interested in the peaceful resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict. This decision should be taken with the mutual agreement of
both the sides," she said.
With respect to the position of Estonia, which restrained from voting
during discussions over the Resolution on Situation in the occupied
territory of Azerbaijan, adopted on 4 March at the UN General Assembly,
the vice speaker said that hearings on the issue at UN and the issue
of Kosovo independence had almost overlapped and Estonia was obliged
to back the European community.
Owland said that many European countries also restrained from voting
" Estonia’s position specifies that Kosovo cannot be a precedent
for the resolution of other conflicts in the world, including the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Every case is unique and should be resolved
accordingly," she said.
UN General Assembly supported the Resolution on Situation in the
occupied territory of Azerbaijan, proposed by Azerbaijan. The document
underlines the necessity of ‘immediate, full and unconditional
withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from the occupied territory of
Azerbaijan Republic".