AZERI FOREIGN MINISTRY PRAISES COUNTRIES ABSTAINING IN UN VOTE ON KARABAKH
Day.Az
March 17 2008
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has said that 100 countries
demonstrated support for Azerbaijan’sterritorial integrity by
abstaining from a vote at the UN General Assembly on 14 March.
In an interview with Day.az website, Xazar Ibrahim said that those
who abstained did not give in to serious pressure by "some forces"
who were opposed to a draft resolution that called for Armenian
withdrawal fromAzerbaijan’s occupied territories.
"As you know, not only Armenia but also some other forces had exerted
serious pressure on those countries [whichabstained] to make them vote
against this resolution. However, those countries demonstrated their
position – theirrecognition of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity –
by not attending the vote at all. In doing so, they createdconditions
for the approval of the resolution," Ibrahim was quoted as saying.
Seven countries, including the USA, Russia and France, voted against
the Azerbaijani-drafted resolution, which theycalled an "unbalanced"
document.