SPEAKERS STRESS NEED FOR MORE EFFECTIVE MEANS TO ADDRESS GENOCIDE, WARN AGAINST LOSING SIGHT OF SO-CALLED ‘SOFT THREATS’, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE CONTINUES

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

15^th & 16^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SPEAKERS STRESS NEED FOR MORE EFFECTIVE MEANS TO ADDRESS GENOCIDE, WARN AGAINST

LOSING SIGHT OF SO-CALLED ‘SOFT THREATS’, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE CONTINUES

CORRECTION

The last sentence of the last paragraph on page 13 of Press Release GA/10265, issued on 29 September, should read:

Indeed, it was Armenia that continued to occupy the Nagorno-Karabakh region and several other areas, contravening relevant Council resolutions which had proclaimed that the territories belonged to Azerbaijan and had demanded a complete withdrawal of all foreign forces.

Also, the last two sentences of the first paragraph on page 14 should read:

The situation in the occupied territories was made worse because Armenia used them for drug trafficking, smuggling and other illegal activities.  Azerbaijan would not hesitate to negotiate with Armenia once it evacuated the occupied Azerbaijani territories, accepted autonomous status for Nagorno-Karabakh, and abided by relevant Security Council resolutions on the matter.

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