The discussion of Azerbaijan’s resolution on occupied territories at the U.S. General Assembly is to take place on September 9, the U.N. official website reports. The document was to have been discussed on September 7.

Talking to NEWS.am, Vice-Speaker of the RA Parliament, RPA Board member Samvel Nikoyan pointed out that any forecasts concerning the documents are too early to make now. Votes on resolutions are often spontaneous at international institutions. “Many delegations do not even examine the document they vote on,” Nikoyan said. He stressed that Azerbaijan will certainly try to enlist the support of the members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) – or have already done so. “These states’ position is conditioned by their religious identity,” Nikoyan said. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not a religious problem, but that of peoples’ right to self-determination. “In this context, many of the OIC member-states were and are actively involved in recognizing the Palestinian and Kosovo peoples’ right to self-determination. So it is not yet clear what will be the OIC member-states’ final decision,” Nikoyan said.

Official Yerevan is doing its best to block the Azeri resolution at the U.N. “I must say, however, that the organization has adopted several resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh since 1992, but none of them was implemented. So the new one will only join the list of failed documents. But even in this case, the approval of one more resolution not in the Armenian side’s favor is undesirable,” Nikoyan said.

The Azeri resolution points out the necessity for return of Azerbaijani refugees and the unacceptability of destruction of cultural monuments “in the occupied territories.”