Trend, Azerbaijan
June 2 2012
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict informally discussed in UN Security Council
Azerbaijan, Baku, June 2 / Trend M. Aliyev /
Azerbaijan’s permanent mission to the UN organized informal
discussions on “Peaceful settlement of conflicts, their prevention and
solutions: mediation, legal decision, and justice” (the Arria Formula
Meeting) in the UN Security Council.
Besides UN Security Council member-countries, the representatives of
other UN member states, UN Secretariat, intergovernmental
organizations, more than 120 representatives of civil society and
scientific community attended the meeting, Azerbaijan’s Permanent
Mission to the United Nations told Trend today.
Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov and professor at Cambridge
University Malcolm Shaw participated as keynote speakers.
While opening the meeting, Azerbaijan’s permanent representative to
the UN, Ambassador Agshin Mehdiyev said that the meetings aims to find
the ways to resolve disputes peacefully, to prevent and resolve
conflicts, to define the role of mediation in establishing peace on
the basis of international law.
Armenia’s permanent representative to the UN also participated in the
discussions. His speech contradicted the theme and spirit of the
meeting. He tried to distort the speakers’ statements. Regarding
Azimov’s statement on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenia’s permanent
representative said that there is no conflict between Armenia and
Azerbaijan. He also accused Baku of hampering the attempts to resolve
the conflict.
In response, Azimov said that there is plenty of evidence indicating
that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict arose between Azerbaijan and
Armenia. It is enough to mention two of them. First, Armenian citizens
serve in the Azerbaijani occupied territories and the documents of
captured Armenian soldiers confirm this fact. Second, the Armenian
President participates in the negotiations on the conflict settlement
as a party to the conflict.
Azimov said that Armenia was the only country which did not agree with
the UN resolution “Peaceful settlement of disputes, strengthening the
role of mediation in conflict prevention and settlement” in 2011. In
this case, the Armenian representative’s statements on the importance
of mediation in resolving the conflict are surprising.
Azimov touched upon the conflict situations, particularly the
mediation efforts to resolve the conflict between Azerbaijan and
Armenia and the main factors of successful mediation.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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