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    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    Nov. 4, 2004

    UN to discuss Upper Garabagh conflict

    The United Nations has considered the request submitted by the
    permanent representative of Azerbaijan to include a provision on the
    situation with the occupied Azerbaijani lands into the agenda of its
    December session. The UN General Assembly approved putting the issue on
    discussion by 42 votes, 2 against (including Armenia), with 99 members
    abstaining.


    Azerbaijan stated that the ongoing conflict has led to the occupation
    of a considerable portion of the country's territories and ousting a
    great a number of people from their homes, and inflicted serious damage
    to the Azeri economy. The document submitted by Azerbaijan says that
    'the actions by the OSCE Minsk Group dealing with the Upper Garabagh
    problem have not yielded any results,

    as illegal activity is going on in these territories, notably,
    Armenians are being settled there in order to artificially alter the
    demographic situation'.
    A representative of France, speaking on behalf the OSCE MG, which also
    includes USA and Russia, said that due to the efforts of the Minsk
    group, the parties are engaged in talks, and proposed to continue
    working in this direction. Stating the OSCE MG position on Azerbaijan's
    proposal to include the mentioned issue into the meeting agenda, he
    said this may negatively affect the efforts aimed at settling the
    conflict.
    Commenting on the issue, Russian Foreign Ministry officials stated that
    consideration of the Upper Garabagh conflict at the meeting will not
    positively influence peace talks.
    "Russia abstained from voting, along with the other OSCE Minsk Group
    co-chairs. We believe that consideration of the issue at the UN General
    Assembly session, along with the OSCE, is not likely to favorably
    affect the process of negotiations", the same source said and added
    that the results of the vote indicate that most of international
    community adhere to the same position.
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