Armenian Foreign Minister: "I hope the results of voting will be a signal to Azerbaijan from the international community"

The due announcement is contained in the comment of Armenia's Foreign Ministry regarding discussions of the document, presented to Azerbaijan.

In the result, only 39 states, representing GUAM and Organization of Islamic Conference, supported the resolution. OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs including the United States, France and Russia, as well as Armenia and a number of other countries, voted against it and over 150 countries preferred to abstain from voting", the comment says.

"I hope the results of voting will be a signal for Azerbaijan from the side of the international community", Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said adding that most UN member-states rejected the unilateral approach to this issue.

The Armenian Foreign Minister assessed Azerbaijan's resolution as hypocritical. On the one hand, the document, presented by official Baku, is an attempt to mislead the world community, and on the other hand, the resolution contains a paragraph about support of mediation efforts of the OSCE MInsk Group co-chairs, who had previously disagreed with the presented document and voted against it.

The Armenian Foreign Minister are concerned with the further actions of official Baku. The issue is whether Azerbaijan will further undermine the peaceful process and sit at a negotiation table.

The Foreign Minister again confirmed the readiness of Serzh Sarkissyan, newly elected president of Armenia, to meet with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev upon agreement of the latter and the OSCE Minsk Group. Vardan Oskanyan said this is possible and added that by rejecting Azerbaijan's resolution the international community demonstrated support for the document which is on the negotiation table and which allows to attain bring closer the principles of the right of peoples for self-determination and territorial integrity of the states, initially seeming differing.

"This document gives an impetus to the negotiation process between Armenia and Azerbaijan", the Armenian Foreign Minister said.

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