UN General Assembly will discuss a draft resolution “The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan” in a plenary meeting of the 64th session on September 7.

The draft resolution is item 18 on UN General Assembly’s agenda. Item 14, report of the Secretary General and draft resolution about the protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their implications for international peace, security and development will also be discussed on the same day.

In the draft resolution “The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan”, the General Assembly reaffirmed the continuing applicability of all relevant norms of international humanitarian law and international human rights law to the situation concerning the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region; also reaffirmed the commitment to ensure the inalienable right of the population expelled from the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region and their descendants to return to their homes, and stressed the necessity of creating appropriate conditions to this end; determines that the return of the population expelled from the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region will create favourable conditions for taking confidence-building measures and encouraging people-to-people contacts; stressed the need to ensure the protection of cultural heritage and sacred sites in the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

The UN General Assembly invited relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the United Nations human rights treaty monitoring bodies and other United Nations entities, as appropriate, to address in fulfilling their respective mandates the issue of observance of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the conflict-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

It also requested the Secretary-General to prepare, in collaboration with United Nations entities and international and regional organizations and arrangements, as appropriate, and to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session a comprehensive report on the implementation of the present resolution.