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UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS DRAFT RESOLUTION ON SITUATION IN AZERBAIJAN'S OCCUPIED LANDS ON SEPT. 7
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http://www.today.az/news/politics/72865.html
Sept 1 2010
Azerbaijan
UN General Assembly will discuss a draft resolution "The situation
in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" in a plenary meeting of
the 64th session on Sept. 7.
The draft resolution is item 18 on UN General Assembly~Rs agenda. Item
14, report of the Secretary General and draft resolution about the
protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their implications for
international peace, security and development will also be discussed
on the same day.
In the draft resolution ~SThe situation in the occupied territories
of Azerbaijan~T, the General Assembly reaffirmed the continuing
applicability of all relevant norms of international humanitarian
law and international human rights law to the situation concerning
the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh
region; also reaffirmed the commitment to ensure the inalienable right
of the population expelled from the conflict-affected territories in
and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region and their descendants to return
to their homes, and stressed the necessity of creating appropriate
conditions to this end; determined that the return of the population
expelled from the conflict-affected territories in and around the
Nagorno-Karabakh region will create favourable conditions for taking
confidence-building measures and encouraging people-to-people contacts;
stressed the need to ensure the protection of cultural heritage and
sacred sites in the conflict-affected territories in and around the
Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The UN General Assembly invited relevant special procedures of the
Human Rights Council, the United Nations human rights treaty monitoring
bodies and other United Nations entities, as appropriate, to address
in fulfilling their respective mandates the issue of observance of
international humanitarian law and international human rights law in
the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh
region.
It also requested the Secretary-General to prepare, in collaboration
with United Nations entities and international and regional
organizations and arrangements, as appropriate, and to submit to the
General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session a comprehensive report
on the implementation of the present resolution.
From: A. Papazian
Today
http://www.today.az/news/politics/72865.html
Sept 1 2010
Azerbaijan
UN General Assembly will discuss a draft resolution "The situation
in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" in a plenary meeting of
the 64th session on Sept. 7.
The draft resolution is item 18 on UN General Assembly~Rs agenda. Item
14, report of the Secretary General and draft resolution about the
protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their implications for
international peace, security and development will also be discussed
on the same day.
In the draft resolution ~SThe situation in the occupied territories
of Azerbaijan~T, the General Assembly reaffirmed the continuing
applicability of all relevant norms of international humanitarian
law and international human rights law to the situation concerning
the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh
region; also reaffirmed the commitment to ensure the inalienable right
of the population expelled from the conflict-affected territories in
and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region and their descendants to return
to their homes, and stressed the necessity of creating appropriate
conditions to this end; determined that the return of the population
expelled from the conflict-affected territories in and around the
Nagorno-Karabakh region will create favourable conditions for taking
confidence-building measures and encouraging people-to-people contacts;
stressed the need to ensure the protection of cultural heritage and
sacred sites in the conflict-affected territories in and around the
Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The UN General Assembly invited relevant special procedures of the
Human Rights Council, the United Nations human rights treaty monitoring
bodies and other United Nations entities, as appropriate, to address
in fulfilling their respective mandates the issue of observance of
international humanitarian law and international human rights law in
the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh
region.
It also requested the Secretary-General to prepare, in collaboration
with United Nations entities and international and regional
organizations and arrangements, as appropriate, and to submit to the
General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session a comprehensive report
on the implementation of the present resolution.
From: A. Papazian