YEREVAN.- The membership of five new states to the UN Security Council is still under discussion, UN Resident Coordinator/ UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia Dafina Gercheva said at a press conference on Friday.

Gercheva stated that Azerbaijan also claimed for the membership. While making a decision, ding the fact of unsettled conflicts in the region, especially Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, will be taken into account, as well as the consequences which Azerbaijan’s possible membership may have in efforts into settling the conflict.

She stressed that UN has no mediating function in the settlement of Karabakh conflict. However, it supports OSCE MG sparing no effort for solution to the conflict through peace and in accordance with the international norms.