URGE UN TO ENFORCE RESOLUTIONS REGARDING AZERBAIJAN TERRITORY
Fariz Huseynov

In-Forum
ticle/id/278550/group/Opinion/
May 14 2010
North Dakota

What good is served by adopting United Nations Security Council
resolutions and U.N. General Assembly resolutions if they are not
enforced?

What good is served by adopting United Nations Security Council
resolutions and U.N. General Assembly resolutions if they are not
enforced?

On behalf of 400,000 Azerbaijani-Americans and more than 40 million
Azerbaijanis worldwide, we urge the United Nations to start taking
serious steps to implement the U.N. Security Council resolutions
822, 853, 874 and 884 of 1993, the U.N. General Assembly resolution
A/RES/48/114 and other resolutions. These resolutions call for
"immediate complete and unconditional withdrawal of the occupying
forces" of all Armenian military forces from Azerbaijan’s territories.

Eighteen years ago, the Republic of Armenia conducted a war against
the people of Azerbaijan in the internationally recognized sovereign
territories of Azerbaijan. According to the U.N., there are nearly

1 million Azerbaijani refugees and internally displaced persons. The
ethnic Azerbaijani population of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and other
seven surrounding districts of Azerbaijan, numbering close to 800,000,
were ethnically cleansed from the occupied territories, and for the
past 17 years have been unable to return to their ancestral homes.

These acts followed the prior ethnic cleansing campaign in 1988,
resulting in deportation of more than 200,000 ethnic Azeris from
Armenia proper.

May 8 was the 18th anniversary of destruction of the historic town
of Shusha, which was once the centerpiece of a vibrant Azerbaijani
classical music scene and home to the first opera in the Middle East.

It was renowned for its musicians, composers and singers. Now it
lays in waste, a victim of Armenian destruction, occupation, and
systematic ethnic cleansing. Until 1992, Shusha, the most important
and best-known city in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan,
was 92 percent Azerbaijani. The occupation of Shusha followed the
massacre of 613 Azerbaijani civilians by Armenian troops in the town
of Khojaly just two months earlier.

On behalf of Azerbaijani-Americans, we implore you to do whatever
is necessary to move this situation along to its rightful resolution
within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan: 1) to enforce the U.N.

Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, 2) to stop Armenian
occupation, 3) to remove all Armenian military forces illegally
stationed in Azerbaijan, 4) to allow the return of Azerbaijani
displaced persons back to their homes, 5) to remove the blockade of
Nakhichevan, the Azerbaijani exclave region, 6) to return all POWs
and MIA.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress