Report on illegal activities on Azerbaijan’s occupied territories disseminated in UN
By Rashid Shirinov
A report on the “Illegal economic and other activities in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan” has been circulated in the United Nations.
The report developed by Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has been disseminated in accordance with the paragraphs of the agenda of the UN General Assembly’s 70th session on the “Situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan”.
The report was prepared basing on the information from Armenian sources, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Hikmet Hajiyev told Trend on September 6.
The document reflects the facts of illegal economic activities of Armenians, their resettlement in the occupied territories, plunder of natural resources of Nagorno-Karabakh, construction of infrastructure objects in the occupied territories, production of wine and spirits and other products, illegal activities in ICT and banking, destruction of cultural and historical monuments and so on.
Facts presented in the report show that despite current efforts to find a political solution to the conflict, Armenia continues its policy of deception of the international community and the process of annexation of Azerbaijan's occupied territories.
Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan laying territorial claims on its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.
Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.
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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov
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