01-09-2010 14:17:37

UN General Assembly to mull draft resolution on the occupied Azeri territories

BAKU – A draft resolution “The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan” is expected to be discussed at a plenary meeting of the 64th session of the UN General Assembly on September 7.

The draft is included as item 18 in the UN General Assembly’s agenda.

The report of the Secretary General and a draft resolution on the protracted conflicts in the GUAM region and their implications for international peace, security and development will also be discussed on the same day.

The draft resolution on occupied territories of Azerbaijan:
- reaffirms 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”;
- reaffirms 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;
- determines 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;
- points out to 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 UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies and other UN entities “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”.

The draft resolution also “requests the Secretary-General to prepare, in collaboration with United Nations entities and international and regional organizations and arrangements, as appropriate, a comprehensive report on the implementation of the present resolution and to submit it to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session”.

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