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    UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ALTERS DATE OF DISCUSSION ON DRAFT RESOLUTION ON SITUATION IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF AZERBAIJAN

    Today
    http://www.today.az/news/politics/73142.html
    Sept 7 2010
    Azerbaijan

    UN General Assembly altered date of discussion on a draft resolution
    "The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" in a plenary
    meeting of the 64th session.

    Earlier the discussions were scheduled for September 7, but it
    was postponed until September 9, APA reports quoting UN's official
    website. The draft resolution is item 18 on UN General Assembly's
    agenda.

    In the draft resolution "The situation in the occupied territories
    of Azerbaijan", the General Assembly reaffirmed 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; also reaffirmed 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 stressed the necessity of creating appropriate
    conditions to this end; determines that the return of the population
    expelled from the conflict-affected territories in and around the
    Nagorno-Karabakh region will create favourable conditions for taking
    confidence-building measures and encouraging people-to-people contacts;
    stressed the need to ensure the protection of cultural heritage and
    sacred sites in the conflict-affected territories in and around the
    Nagorno-Karabakh region.

    The UN General Assembly invited 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.

    It also requested the Secretary-General to prepare, in collaboration
    with United Nations entities and international and regional
    organizations and arrangements, as appropriate, and to submit to the
    General Assembly at its 65th session a comprehensive report on the
    implementation of the present resolution.




    From: A. Papazian
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