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YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 26, ARMENPRESS. The UN General Assembly session was an appropriate occasion to voice about Armenia’s standpoint on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict regulation from such a high tribune. The Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, member of “Heritage” fraction, Alexander Arzumanyan stated about this at the course of the press conference held on September 26. Arzumanyan noted that he assesses the statement of the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan at the UN first of all from the political viewpoint.
In this regard, according to Alexander Arzumanyan, it was of a certain importance that the president responded to the political line and speculations of the father and son Aliyevs saying that the four UN Security Council resolutions are in favor of Azerbaijan.
The President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan took part in the 69th session of the UN General Assembly on September 24 in the framework of his working visit to the United States of America. Serzh Sargsyan particularly stated in his speech:
“While discussing the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement I cannot but address the four UN Security Council resolutions, which were adopted during the war, that every so often are exploited by Azerbaijani authorities in order to justify their obstructive policy.
It is about those four Resolutions that demanded unconditionally as a matter of priority cessation of all military hostilities. Azerbaijan failed to comply. Azerbaijan’s own non-compliance with the fundamental demands of these Resolutions made their full implementation impossible. The Resolutions contained calls upon the parties to cease bombardments and air strikes targeting peaceful civilian populations, to refrain from violating the principles of international humanitarian law but instead Azerbaijan continued its indiscriminate bombardments of civilian populations. Azerbaijan did not spare children, women and old men thus gravely violating all legal and moral norms of international humanitarian law.
Now Azerbaijan cynically refers to these Resolutions – refers selectively, pulling them out of context as a prerequisite for the settlement of the problem. The adequate interpretation of the UN Security Council Resolutions is not possible without correctly understanding the hierarchy of the demands set therein.
The Resolutions inter alia request the restoration of economic, transport and energy links in the region (UN SC Resolution 853) and removal of all obstacles to communications and transportation (UN SC Resolution 874). It is no secret that Azerbaijan and Turkey imposed blockade on Nagorno Karabakh and the Republic of Armenia from the outset of the conflict. The Azerbaijani President in his statements even takes pride in this fact promising his own public that direction would remain the priority of Azerbaijan’s foreign policy.
The abovementioned UN Security Council Resolutions called upon Azerbaijan to establish direct contacts with Nagorno Karabakh. Azerbaijan refused to establish any direct contact with Nagorno Karabakh, which was a legally equal party to the Ceasefire Agreement concluded in 1994, as well as to a number of other international agreements. Moreover, Azerbaijan preaches hatred towards people it claims it wants to see as a part of their state.
None of the UN SC Resolutions identifies Armenia as a conflicting party.”