"Azeri resolution is sword of Damocles over Armenia"
"Azerbaijan has received what it wanted and finds putting draft resolution A/64/L.57 to a vote inappropriate for now," former Foreign Minister of Armenia Alexander Arzumanian told reporters on September 10.
He says Armenian authorities will try to represent the withdrawal of the resolution from consideration and voting at the UN General Assembly as their victory in an attempt to justify their inactivity.
"IN fact, Azerbaijan did not withdraw its resolution. It simply decided to postpone discussion of the resolution "On the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" till the next 65th session of the General Assembly due on Sept. 14. Turkey will soon assume the chairmanship of the UN GA and this resolution will be the sword of Damocles hanging over Armenia," he said.
Mr. Arzumanian thinks Azerbaijan has removed the resolution from the UN GA agenda, as its demand for a fact-finding group has been satisfied.
"Though General Assembly's decisions are non-binding they are vital in the negotiation process of this or that issue," he noted.
Armenia's former FM is surprised at the agiotage over the postponement of discussion of Azerbaijani resolution.
"Azerbaijan first introduced the resolution on the UN agenda in 2006, then in March 2008. When in 2008 the Azerbaijani delegation was actively pushing the resolution forward at the UN, elections were being rigged in Armenia and people were being massacred. The sole function of the RA MFA in those days was to ensure PR for the country's illegal authorities, hence the authorities ignored the resolution," said Alexander Arzumanian.
To fight against similar resolutions Armenia should work intensively all year round, he concluded.
