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ISESCO calls on UN to ensure fulfillment of resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh

19 March 2016 10:23 (UTC+04:00)
ISESCO calls on UN to ensure fulfillment of resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh

By Nazrin Gadimova

ISESCO Director General, Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri has called upon UN Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki-Moon to enforce Security Council resolutions condemning Armenian occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and other lands of Azerbaijan and demanding its immediate cessation.

Altwaijri pointed out that the list of UN resolutions concerning the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, four passed in 1993 by the UN Security Council (822, 583, 874, 884) and one ratified by the UN General Assembly in its 62nd session in 2008 (62/243), have been pending on improper grounds, the official website of ISESCO reports.

The ISESCO Director General expressed surprise at how this very serious conflict threatening to undermine peace in this part of the world is not high on the agenda of the UN chief.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict evolved in 1988 as a result of Armenian aggressive policy towards neighboring Azerbaijan. As a result of a bloody war, Armenia occupied 20 percent of the Azerbaijani territories.

Large-scale hostilities ended with a Russia-brokered ceasefire in 1994 but Armenia continued the occupation in defiance of four UN Security Council resolutions calling for immediate and unconditional withdrawal.

It is indeed strange, Dr Altwaijri went on, the UN Secretary General has never visited any of the refugee camps housing over a million people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh who have lost their homes, mosques and cultural heritage.

“This and the long-standing, just Palestinian issue deserve to be treated in earnest by the UN and its Secretary General,” Dr Altwaijri concluded, reaffirming ISESCO’s support to Azerbaijan and the State of Palestine to recover their usurped territories and so end this very real occupation being ignored by the Secretary General.

More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and nearly 1 million were displaced as a result of the Karabakh war.

The bloody war left 700,000 civilians from Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions adjoining it, as well as the regions bordering Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, without homes.

They are temporarily settled in more than 1,600 settlements across 62 cities and regions of Azerbaijan.

Moreover, 250,000 Azerbaijanis were expelled from Armenia and became refugees due to Armenia's ethnic cleansing policy after the emergence of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan.

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Nazrin Gadimova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @NazrinGadimova

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