THE VOTING IN THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY DIDN’T BRING THE RESULTS AZERBAIJAN WAS EXPECTING
PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2008 GMT+04:00
The fact, that the UNO has already expired itself as an organization
capable of making any reasonable decisions, was clear already when it
approved the resolutions on the Genocide of Rwanda and the Genocide
of Darfur. No less shameful did the organization act when it forbade
the exhibition dedicated to the Armenian Genocide.
As it was expected, the voting in the UN General Assembly of the
resolution on "the situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan"
didn’t bring the results Baku was expecting. But the deputy of Milly
Mejlis of Azerbaijan Asim Molladze hurried to congratulate the Azeri
diplomacy with the big victory.
A recurrent maxim about the "dethronement of the Armenian powerful
lobby" wasn’t left aside either. As a matter of fact, Molladze didn’t
make any new discoveries.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ But if the voting of OIC and GUAM may be qualified
as a "big victory", then we don’t know how Armenia may define the
position of the OSCE Member Countries and other 100 countries, which
simply didn’t want to participate in the shameful event. The fact,
that the UNO has already expired itself as an organization capable of
making any reasonable decisions, was clear already when it approved the
resolutions on the Genocide of Rwanda and the Genocide of Darfur. No
less shameful did the organization act when it forbade the exhibition
dedicated to the Armenian Genocide. The last unsuccessful step of
the UN Security Council was passing the Ahtisaari plan.
Baku has already started to speak against the countries, having voted
against the resolution. "The Embassy of Azerbaijan has carried out
many works with the Indian party, so that the latter would at least
abstain from voting in the UN regarding the Karabakh issue," said the
Ambassador of Azerbaijan in India Tamerlan Karaev. However, according
to him, Baku failed. "We had very big plans regarding the two-sided
relations, but unfortunately with the step that India took yesterday
crossed out all the possibilities. Now the Embassy of Azerbaijan in
Deli is waiting for certain instructions from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, after which we will officially declare our position to the
Indian party. Undoubtedly, the position of India in the UNO was a
great disappointment to us, and certainly all this will seriously
effect on further relations between the two countries," said Karaev.
Araz Azimov didn’t keep aside from the issue either.
"The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno Karabakh (the USA,
Russia and France) must take into consideration the resolution of
the UN General Assembly in all their actions. The co-chairs have out
themselves in an impartial situation; have put shame on themselves
by acting against the Azeri viewpoint.
We will not forget the hostility they feel fro us. We have always tried
to create an atmosphere of trust between us. But after this trust was
destroyed, perhaps it will not be possible to mend this situation any
more," he declared. For some reasons, none of the Azeri diplomats
mentions that this resolution doesn’t have any legal effect. They
think that the Azeri nation doesn’t have to worry about such trifles.
According to RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Vartan Oskanyan, the
resolution is very hypocritical. "On the one hand this is an attempt to
misinform the UN Member States and that is why the document contains
an article supporting the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group. The Member
Countries have clearly declared that they are not going to support the
resolution and that they are going to vote against it," he emphasized.
Vartan Oskanyan mentioned that Armenia is curious about the next step
that Azerbaijan is going to take.
"The question is how this resolution will effect on the process of
negotiations or whether Azerbaijan will really receive a clear note
and will get back to negotiations," said the Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Armenia. In his turn Armen Martirosyan mentioned that the
resolution of the UN General Assembly with the demand of immediate
withdrawal of the Armenian forces from "the occupied territories of
Azerbaijan" will interrupt the peaceful process of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Conflict regulation. According to him this document contradicts to
the fundamental international norms.
It is quite understandable that it was not difficult for Azerbaijan
to gain the support of the GUAM Countries and OIC. Serbia’s position
is also quite understandable; the country is very upset with the UNO
for its decision on the Kosovo issue. But it is hard to understand
what Columbia and unknown countries like Tuvalu or Myanmar have to do
with this issue. By the way, it is worth mentioning that Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, which are OIK member countries, abstained
from voting being very well aware of the state of affairs. So it is
quite untimely to speak about victory. But there is no doubt that this
has served as a very good lesson for the Armenian diplomacy. It is
natural that Baku will not content itself with the UNO, and will try
to promote this kind of resolutions in all competent international
organizations. And only the truth about the situation in Nagorno
Karabakh may fight all these lies. However, it’s very unlikely that
the 39 countries having participated in the voting are not aware of
the real state of affairs. Simply the Islamic solidarity, which is
unfortunately much stronger than the Christian solidarity, worked
out well.