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    UN News Centre
    Sept 28 2012


    Nagorno-Karabakh and Syria among issues Azerbaijan minister discusses
    at UN debate


    28 September 2012 - Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh region will `one day live shoulder-to-shoulder,'
    Azerbaijan's Foreign Affairs Minister, Elmar Mammadyarov, told the
    United Nations General Assembly Debate today.

    `We sincerely believe there is no alternative to peace, stability and
    mutually beneficial regional cooperation,' the Foreign Affairs
    Minister told the 67th Assembly's General Debate, taking place at UN
    Headquarters in New York. `Azerbaijan is the most interested party in
    the earliest negotiated settlement of the dispute.'

    In his statement, Mr. Mammadyarov also addressed his country's
    participation in the Security Council in the 2012-2013 term,
    highlighting how his country, which served as President of the
    15-member body in May, organizing a meeting under the so-called Arria
    Formula - a mechanism that allows Member States greater flexibility in
    the way they are briefed on a particular issue - to `encourage a frank
    exchange of views... on the role of mediation, judicial settlement and
    justice in promoting durable and international law-based peace and
    reconciliation.'

    The Foreign Affairs Minister expressed Azerbaijan's concern over the
    Middle East peace process, which he said has `been at a standstill,'
    and called on the parties to create the necessary conditions conducive
    to the resumption of negotiations.

    In addition, he said Azerbaijan remained `deeply concerned' over both
    the violence and the `socio-economic and humanitarian situation' in
    Syria, and expressed deep concern over the `recent escalation provoked
    by blasphemy against Islam' - indirectly referring to a recent
    anti-Islam video made in the US which led to violent reactions in
    various cities around the world.

    Azerbaijan's Foreign Affairs Minister is one of scores of world
    leaders and other high-level officials presenting their views and
    comments on issues of individual, national and international relevance
    at the Assembly's General Debate, which ends Oct. 1.

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