March 16, 2008	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 7, 1429

UNITED NATIONS, March 15: The UN General Assembly on Friday adopted a resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, in which it called for the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of Armenian forces “from all the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan.”

With 39 votes in favour, seven against and 100 abstentions, the Assembly adopted a text that also called for “continued respect and support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Azerbaijan within its internationally recognised borders.”

The resolution reaffirmed “the inalienable right of the population expelled from the occupied territories” of Azerbaijan to return to their homes, and to achieve that end it underlined the need for the comprehensive rehabilitation of all conflict-affected territories.