POLITICS
Azerbaijan submits draft resolution on enlargement of Executive Committee of UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Baku, 10 November (AZERTAC). Azerbaijan and Ruanda have submitted a draft resolution to the United Nations on the enlargement of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Executive Committee.
The document was made public at the third committee’s 66th session of the UN General Assembly.
The document which was submitted by the representative of Azerbaijan together with his colleagues from Ruanda raises an issue of increasing the number of the committee’s members from 85 to 87. The decision was adopted on July 28, 2011, by the Economic and Social Council.
In a letter sent to UN Secretary General, the Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the UN, Ambassador Agshin Mehdiyev said that Azerbaijan plans to join the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Executive Committee.
“Azerbaijan is fully committed to the program of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Azerbaijan joined a Convention on the status of refugees which was adopted in 1957 and a Protocol adopted in 1967. From 1999 to 2007 Azerbaijan has a status of observer in UN Standing Committee,” the letter says.
“Azerbaijan made a pledge on the improvement of the status of refugees both by means of the international and regional cooperation, and on the national level,” the letter says.