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A new draft resolution on Azerbaijan has been submitted to the UN General Assembly`s 64th session in New York.
The 10 point draft resolution called "Observance of international humanitarian and international human rights law in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" bases on such documents on the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh as Hague Convention, Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
The draft resolution "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" as well as "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 stresses the necessity of creating appropriate conditions to this end".
It determines the return of the population expelled from the conflict affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region will create favorable conditions for taking confidence-building measures and encouraging people-to-people contacts as well as that "all measures taken to change unilaterally the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and status of the conflict-affected territories have no legal effect and constitute a serious obstruction to ongoing efforts towards the negotiated settlement of the conflict".
The nations of the UN in a draft resolution stress the need to ensure the protection of cultural heritage and sacred sites in the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region, they underline the need to take immediate steps in establishing the fate of persons reported missing in connection with the conflict, and urges States and encourages intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to take all necessary measures to provide appropriate assistance to this end.
The draft resolution invites "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, and the OSCE to dispatch urgently a multinational fact-finding mission, composed of the representatives of the participating States of the Organization with the relevant expertise, to inquire into and report on the observance of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region, paying primary attention to the implantation of settlers and to the current state of cultural heritage and sacred sites in these territories, and requests the Secretary-General to provide, if necessary, the relevant assistance to this end."
The UN requests the Secretary-General to prepare, in collaboration with United Nations entities and international and regional organizations and arrangements, as appropriate, and submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session a comprehensive report on the implementation of the present resolution.