YEREVAN. - The forthcoming 66th UN General Assembly session will become another stage of missed opportunities for Armenia, said Regional Studies Center Director and political analyst Richard Giragosian.

According to him, the Armenian side does not use the potential of this important body (the UN), the evidenced thereof is lack of any initiatives during the debates on Palestine’s independence bid.

“This week the delegates will discuss independence of a number of states. The session will be attended by representatives of South Sudan, and Kosovo, but the Karabakh issue will not be raised neither in form of a resolution, nor a statement. This is another missed opportunity, and both Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia are responsible for this shortcoming,” he said.

The expert drew attention to the fact that the first document using the term “occupied” territories, with respect to the liberated territories of Karabakh, appeared in the UN. Giragosian considers it is a failure of the Armenian diplomacy, saying it has not become a lesson for Armenia. Its actions in the UN remain inactive and inert.

The fact that Azerbaijan can push through a resolution on situation in the UN countries in the General Assembly’s agenda is a result of lack of initiative.

According to Giragosian, “Armenia’s representative to the UN is a man whom no one has ever heard or seen in action.”