ANC has prepared a resolution
Today the UN General Assembly will start its 65th session with the draft resolution on the "Situation in the seized territories of Azerbaijan" on the agenda. The draft resolution was moved to the agenda of today's session upon Azerbaijan's request.
In an interview with "A1+", representative of the Armenian National Congress's international relations committee Vladimir Karapetyan said that presenting the draft resolution on Azerbaijan's territorial integrity at the UN General Assembly is a lever against Armenia.
"What's especially troubling is Armenia's meekness. We had, but didn't take advantage of the opportunity of presenting resolutions that would balance the situation and show who the real aggressor is," said Karapetyan.
To fix the flaw, the Armenian National Congress has prepared a draft resolution.
"Armenia must take the initiative and explain the truth about the conflict to the international community. We have included that in our resolution. We have presented Azerbaijan's aggression, the war that that country imposed and the territories that it lost as a result of that war. This is the situation that has been created and Armenia must do everything possible to let the international community know about that," Vladimir Karapetyan said as he briefly presented the resolution.
According to Vladimir Karapetyan, the current authorities can use the ANC's new draft resolution as well.
"They can introduce provisions that can be more current taking into account the process of negotiations. We are not part of the negotiations, but I think what we have emphasized corresponds to the situation," said the representative of the ANC's international relations committee.
Three inacceptable concessions
Vladimir Karapetyan also touched upon the results of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs' visit to the region and indicated three inacceptable concessions made by the Armenian side. First, according to him, for the first time Armenia allowed the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to enter Stepanakert from Azerbaijan.
"After that, French Co-Chair Bernard Fassier announced that they didn't cross the border, but the contact-line. This is also a slap to Armenia," said Karapetyan.
The ANC representative says the next concession was the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs' use of the Azerbaijani name "Khankend" for Stepanakert in their statement following the visit.
And finally, the third concession was that the official Yerevan agreed to the visit of the international evaluation mission to the surrounding regions of Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Armenia should not play any role because that mission can only be implemented by the consent of the Karabakh authorities and if there is a demand for a monitoring in the Karabakh territories seized by Azerbaijan as well," said the ANC representative.
