Wednesday, April 24 2019 11:15

ArmInfo. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry is protesting the spread in the UN of the first periodic report of the Republic of Artsakh on the implementation of  the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political  Rights UN as an official document.  Thus, the press secretary of the  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Leyla Abdullayeva,  responding to this information, assured that there could not be any  talk about the annual report submitted to the UN Human Rights  Council.

The representative of the ministry noted that it is important to  check the accuracy of the information before its coverage in the  media.

"We repeatedly witnessed how the Armenian media presented certain  topics in a way that corresponded to their interests. It's not the  first time the Armenian side attach Artsakh papers to its letters.  The UN and OSCE declared in response the abuse by Armenia of its  membership in organizations embedding of regime papers in its letters  and that these distributed documents in no way reflect their  positions. Upon careful examination of the document, it is clearly  written there that the distribution of the annex to the document does  not reflect any position of the UN Secretariat on its essence, "the  Spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry assured.

As noted by Abdullaeva, in the same way in the OSCE it is noted that  the information disseminated on the basis of such documents does not  reflect the position of the organization.

As for the document circulated by the Armenian office at the UN,  then, in the words of the ministry's spokesperson, in response to  such provocations of Armenia, letters of protest were issued as  official documents of the Security Council and the UN General  Assembly reflecting the position of Azerbaijan and denying any of  these documents: "In connection with this particular case, the  Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan at the UN office in Geneva and  in other international organizations, held a meeting with Head of  Department of human rights treaties of the UN High Commissioner for  Human Rights, during which he expressed protest and claimed the lack  of legal force of papers attached to the letter of Armenia's  Permanent Mission in Geneva and the inadmissibility of such attempts.  " It should be noted that on April 18, 2019, the first periodic  report of the Artsakh Republic (Nagorno- Karabakh Republic) on the  implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on  Civil and Political Rights was distributed as an official document to  the United Nations.  The report contains information on the  implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant for  1992-2018: the steps taken to protect human rights and fundamental  freedoms in Artsakh, the development of civil society and the  strengthening of democracy, as well as the successes achieved in  these areas.  The Republic of Artsakh joined the International  Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on November 26, 1992 on the  basis of a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.  The report was prepared by the Ministry  of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh together with other  departments and was approved by the decision of the Government of the  Republic of Artsakh on December 7, 2018.