Today, Azerbaijan
July 6 2005
57 countries, OIC members support Azerbaijan unanimously in
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict
57 countries, members of the Organization of Islamic Conference
(OIC), have unanimously supported the position of Azerbaijan by
adopting 3 resolutions at the next 32-th conference of the Foreign
Ministries (FM) heads of the OIC member-countries, which took place
in the Yemen’s capital city, Sana, head of the II territorial
Administration of the Azerbaijan’s FM, Azer Husseyn told the briefing
on 5 July, Trend reports.
Resolutions, adopted at the conference, where Azerbaijan has been
represented by the FM Elmar Mammadyarov, strongly condemn the
Armenia’ actions as the aggressor-country, they reflect the attitude
of Islamic countries to destruction of the Azerbaijan’s cultural
heritage on the occupied areas. According to Husseyn, support of the
Islamic countries means very much for Azerbaijan. «The very fact of
voicing the Upper Karabakh problem from the tribune of such an
authoritative organization is an important support for Azerbaijan’,
the FM official spokesman stated.
According to Husseyn, the FM Mammadyarov addressed the conference
with the proposal to hold the next conference in Baku. Thus, by the
conference’s decision the 33-th conference of the FM heads of the OIC
countries and Ministers of Tourism will be held in 2006 in
Azerbaijan.
Within the conference, the FM of Azerbaijan held a number of
bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Iran, Pakistan, Russia,
Palestine, Turkey and other countries to have exchange of opinions on
bilateral issues.
According to Husseyn, the conference took a decision to give Russia,
where 20 million Moslem live, the observer’ status. «By the
far-sighting policy of Azerbaijan, while establishing the observer’s
status in the organization, provision on not acceptance the
countries, having conflicts with another member of the organization
has been adopted’, Husseyn stressed. In other words, Armenia has no
chances to join the organization.
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