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Armenia unhappy about UN resolution on fires in Karabakh
Mediamax news agency
8 Sep 06
Yerevan, 8 September: The UN General Assembly has voiced serious
concern about the fires "on the occupied territories of Azerbaijan"
and said that an environmental operation should be urgently carried
out to put out the fires and deal with the consequences.
The UN General Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution "On the
situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" submitted by
Azerbaijan without putting it to the vote on 7 September.
The Armenian delegation did not destroy the consensus but dissociated
itself from it.
[Passage omitted: details of the UN debate on the resolution]
Armenia's permanent representative to the UN, Armen Martirosyan,
said at the debate that Armenia had been surprised that the draft
resolution had been submitted to the UN because all the conflicting
parties had agreed to the OSCE experts' fact-finding visit to the
region. He said that the submission of the resolution to the UN had
pursued "some political purposes".
He said that although Armenia had supported the text of the resolution,
the country was still against discussing the issue at the UN and
for that very reason the Armenian side had dissociated itself from
consensus.
[Passage omitted: Azeri envoy to the UN says that the two countries
have for the first time agreed on a document]
Mediamax news agency
8 Sep 06
Yerevan, 8 September: The UN General Assembly has voiced serious
concern about the fires "on the occupied territories of Azerbaijan"
and said that an environmental operation should be urgently carried
out to put out the fires and deal with the consequences.
The UN General Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution "On the
situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" submitted by
Azerbaijan without putting it to the vote on 7 September.
The Armenian delegation did not destroy the consensus but dissociated
itself from it.
[Passage omitted: details of the UN debate on the resolution]
Armenia's permanent representative to the UN, Armen Martirosyan,
said at the debate that Armenia had been surprised that the draft
resolution had been submitted to the UN because all the conflicting
parties had agreed to the OSCE experts' fact-finding visit to the
region. He said that the submission of the resolution to the UN had
pursued "some political purposes".
He said that although Armenia had supported the text of the resolution,
the country was still against discussing the issue at the UN and
for that very reason the Armenian side had dissociated itself from
consensus.
[Passage omitted: Azeri envoy to the UN says that the two countries
have for the first time agreed on a document]