OIC FOREIGN MINISTERIAL COUNCIL ADOPTS THREE RESOLUTIONS ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH

Today
May 19 2010
Azerbaijan

The thirty-seventh session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the
Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) adopted three resolutions
on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, according to which Armenia was
recognized as an aggressor.

The first resolution is political one. The resolution that recognized
Armenia as an aggressor will become a reference point in the discussion
of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict at the Islamic countries’ upcoming
summit to be held in Cairo in March 2011, Azerbaijani Ambassador to
Saudi Arabia and Permanent Representative to the OIC Tofig Abdullayev
told Trend.

The OIC Foreign Ministerial Council, which will continue for three
days, opened in Dushanbe on Tuesday with the participation of 80
delegations of the OIC member-states, delegations of the observer
countries, and international and regional organizations.

The session mainly focuses on the issues regarding the escalation in
the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and transformation of the Middle East
into a nuclear-free zone, as well as the situation in Iraq and Somalia

"Substantial changes were made to the first resolution that adopted
annually. The question of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be
continually raised at the OIC meetings, otherwise we will step back,"
Abdullayev said.

The second resolution considers providing of financial and economic
assistance to the victims of the Armenian aggression, he said.

"This is an appeal to the Islamic institutions and countries in
support of Azerbaijan," Abdullayev said.

Regarding the third resolution, it condemned the destruction of the
historic Islamic monuments in the territories of Azerbaijan as a
result of the Armenian aggression, Abdullayev said.