Baku urges UN to fight against disrespect to territorial integrity

By Sara Rajabova - AzerNews 

Azerbaijan has clearly stated at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly about its position regarding the inadmissibility of disrespect to the territorial integrity and internationally recognized borders of states by another state.

Hikmat Hajiyev, the Azerbaijani foreign ministry spokesman made the remark commenting on specific goals set before the United Nations.

Azerbaijan urged the UN to define tasks for improving collective security measures and fighting aggression against the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the member states, extremism and other threats to peace, Hajiyev noted, quoting Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who addressed the session.

He told Trend that Azerbaijan brought to the attention of leadership and member countries of the organization the need to prevent distortion of the principles of the UN Charter, their use under the guise of the principle of self-determination of peoples for the withholding of such illegal activities as the use of force and threats and other illegal activities.

Hajiyev said in the context of the inadmissibility of disrespect to the territorial integrity, the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict was the keynote of Mammadyarov’s speech.

He added that Mammadyarov showed that his Armenian counterpart’s speech at the UN is full of lie and slander against other countries and nations.

“The Armenian president made a statement on September 26. The president spoke of the Azerbaijani region - Nagorno-Karabakh as a part of Armenia. This shows Armenia’s disrespect for the international obligations and the UN Charter. This statement once again acknowledges the aggression and occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia,” Hajiyev said.

Azerbaijan also drew attention of the UN member-states to the fact that Armenia is involved in political speculation under the guise of the trust building measures and incident investigation.

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost 100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.