Item on Conflicts, Proposed by GUAM, Included in UN GA Agenda Nevertheless

PanARMENIAN.Net - The question of protracted conflicts in the areas of GUAM has been included in the Agenda of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly, said Tahir Tagizade, the Chief of Press and Information at the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry. Representatives of GUAM (a regional organization of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) again put forward the appeal in New York on 13 September 2006, to include the item into the agenda of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly, despite the General Committee of the Assembly having recently rejected the appeal. Sixteen countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Turkey, UK and the United States supported the inclusion of the item. Fifteen countries, including Russia, Algeria, Armenia, Greece, Indonesia and South Africa voted against, 65 countries declined to vote and 96 countries were absent. GUAM countries insisted that the issue be considered at the UN General Assembly, stating that the international mediation in the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh, the Georgian-Abkhaz, the Georgian-South Ossetian and Transniestrian conflicts yielded no results, Trend reports.