Farid Jafarov, attaché at Azerbaijan's Permanent Mission to the UN, addressed the 40th meeting of the UN General Assembly’s Social, Humanitarian Cultural Affairs Committee (known as the Third Committee) in New York during discussion about refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian issues.
He said that Armenia's aggression against Azerbaijan had resulted in
the occupation of almost one-fifth of the territory of Azerbaijan, and
displaced approximately one in nine people in the country. Azerbaijan
continues to suffer from one of the highest proportions of refugees and
displaced persons in the world.
"The government has made a major effort to solve housing problems for
the affected population, but still faces problems from the protracted
conflict and, now that the emergency phase has passed, the international
community does not pay much attention," he said.
"The primary obligation upon Armenia is to ensure that the occupation
of Azerbaijani territories is ended and that the various rights of the
internally displaced persons of Azerbaijani ethnicity are recognized and
exercise," he said.
Responding to the Armenian side, Farid Jafarov said that the government had used its oil revenues to improve the living conditions of refugees and internally displaced persons.
"Armenia needs to renounce its policy of hatred and work on restoring relations," Jafarov said.
An Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman, meanwhile, has condemned
Armenia's policy of resettlement in the occupied territories. Elman
Abdullayev said that the Armenian authorities' continuing artificial and
illegal settlement of the occupied territories of Azerbaijan ran
counter to all norms and principles of international law.
"The expulsion of the Azerbaijani population from its ancestral lands
and the policy of ethnic cleansing must be condemned by the
international community, as this is disrespect for international law and
all the values that govern the system of international relations,"
Abdullayev said.
He said that this Armenian policy should be the subject of serious discussions on the global stage.
"Attempts by the Armenian authorities to change the demographic
situation unilaterally and illegally cause great damage to the
negotiation process to resolve the conflict. The leadership of Armenia
thereby once again demonstrates its destructive position, especially
since the OSCE Minsk Group confirmed during frequent missions to the
territories that the Armenians are resettling the occupied lands,"
Abdullayev said.
A campaign "Armenia-3500" has been launched to encourage 3,500
Armenians living in the West to move to live in Armenia or
Nagorno-Karabakh.
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