OIC Foreign Ministerial Council adopts three resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh

The thirty-seventh session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) adopted three resolutions on the Nagorno-Karabakh  conflict, according to which Armenia was recognized as an aggressor.

The first resolution is political one. The resolution that recognized Armenia as an aggressor will become a reference point in the discussion of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict at the Islamic countries' upcoming summit to be held in Cairo in March 2011, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Permanent Representative to the OIC Tofig Abdullayev told Trend.

The OIC Foreign Ministerial Council, which will continue for three days, opened in Dushanbe on Tuesday with the participation of 80 delegations of the OIC member-states, delegations of the observer countries, and international and regional organizations.

The session mainly focuses on the issues regarding the escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and transformation of the Middle East into a nuclear-free zone, as well as the situation in Iraq and Somalia

"Substantial changes were made to the first resolution that adopted annually. The question of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be continually raised at the OIC meetings, otherwise we will step back," Abdullayev said.

The second resolution considers providing of financial and economic assistance to the victims of the Armenian aggression, he said.

"This is an appeal to the Islamic institutions and countries in support of Azerbaijan," Abdullayev said.

Regarding the third resolution, it condemned the destruction of the historic Islamic monuments in the territories of Azerbaijan as a result of the Armenian aggression, Abdullayev said.


/Trend/