AZERBAIJAN SUBMITTED TWO MORE DOCUMENTS TO THE UN
Washington, 5 March (AZERTAC). Azerbaijan, as a member of UN, continues its efforts to bring the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict to the notice of the international community. On this purpose, the Azerbaijan’s Permanent Mission to UN submitted two more documents to the UN Security Council and General Assembly.
Resolutely expressing its position on the conflict in a number of resolutions of the Security Council and General Assembly, the UN has, on Azerbaijan`s initiative, included the question on situation in the occupied areas in the agenda of the last sessions of the General Assembly in a separate clauses. In March 14, 2008, the UN GA has adopted a resolution “On the situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan”. According to the document, the General Assembly requested the Secretary General to submit a comprehensive report on the implementation of the present resolution.
As stated, one of the documents is Azerbaijan’s Permanent representative to UN Agshin Mehdiyev’s report to the UN Secretary General entitled “Support by States Members of the United Nations and international organizations to Azerbaijan’s position on the conflict in and around the Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.” The 9-page report described the international support to Azerbaijan during the Armenia’s military aggression against Nagorno Karabakh and the adjacent regions and in the following period. The statements made by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, UN Security Council and General Assembly, US State Department, foreign ministries of Russia, Iran and Turkey, European Union, Council of Europe, NATO, Economic Cooperation Organization in Turkey in 1993, OSCE Chairmanship during the Minsk Conference in that year, and the resolutions adopted by the above-mentioned organizations in respect to the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, were submitted to the UN Secretary General. UN General Assembly resolution 62/243 adopted on March 14, 2008 completed the list of documents. The letter quoted that resolution as saying: “The General Assembly reaffirms continued respect and support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Azerbaijan within its internationally recognized borders; demands the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of all Armenian forces from all the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan; reaffirms the inalienable right of the population expelled from the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan to return to their homes.”
The second letter sent to the UN Secretary General was entitled as “Report on the international legal responsibilities of Armenia as the belligerent occupier of Azerbaijani territory”. 27-page report requested to answer to three questions: Is Armenia an occupier in international law of Azerbaijani territory? If so, then, what are Armenia’s duties as an occupier of Azerbaijani territory with regard to issues as the maintenance of public order, the preservation of Azerbaijani legal system, and the protection of human rights in the territory in question? And the last, how may Armenia’s responsibilities be monitored and enforced in international law?
The report envisages that Armenia should take commitments under 21 Articles. The report proved that Armenian actions in Nagorno Karabakh and regions around it is applicable to international humanitarian legal articles, it is impossible to establish an official sovereignty upon these lands legally , Armenia, as an occupant state, on the Hague Convention, bears responsibility for 4210 Azerbaijani missing people and persons participated in military crimes should be held accountable.
Earlier, Azerbaijani Permanent Mission to the UN submitted to General Assembly and Security Council first two reports on December 24, 29 last year. The first Report is about legal complications of Armenian Republic’s military aggression against Azerbaijan Republic” and the second is “Report about self-determination against the background of basic norm of the states’ territorial integrity and Armenia’s revisionist claims”. The Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict still remains on the agenda of UN General Assembly`s 63rd session under the Articles 13 and 18, to end in September current year.
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