STATEMENT
By this Ministry of Foreign Affairs have the honor to inform that by initiative of Azerbaijani side item 18 entitled “The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan” and draft resolution A/64/L.57, entitled “Observance of international law and international human rights law in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan” was included into the agenda of the sixty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
As a result of intensive consultations with parties concerned, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs announced that “between late September and mid October, the Co-Chairs will return to the region to conduct the field assessment mission to observe the humanitarian situation in the territories..... A team of high-level advisors and experts, including representatives from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and others, are expected to accompany the Co-Chairs on their mission, which will be the first international mission in these territories since the OSCE fact finding mission in early 2005” (the end of quotations).
Proceeding from this understanding and in the spirit of good will and constructiveness, the delegation of Azerbaijani side kindly requested the delegations of the UN Member-States to consider to postpone taking action on the draft resolution A/64/L.57, and to transfer the consideration of the item entitled “The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan” to the agenda of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly. Permanent representative of the Azerbaijan Republic to UN A.Mehtiyev informed about it during his speech in the United Nation General Assembly. Armenian side did not give any respond to it.
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