Saturday, April 30, 2005

Position paper: First Committee Azeri

Committee: General Assembly First Committee
Topic: Nuclear Disarmament
Country: Azerbaijan
Delegate: Forest Hills High School

US President Dwight Eisenhower states, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Even through most of the countries understand nuclear weapons are immoral, the development of nuclear weapons are still continuing today. Despite the efforts that United Nations try to spread the idea of nuclear disarmament, such as the adoption of The Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear weapons still cannot wit out completely.

The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia began in 1988. It was caused by the expansionism and a policy of aggression aimed at expanding the territory of Armenia by force at the expense of the territory of Azerbaijan.
In December 1989 the Armenia government decided to annex Mountainous Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan, and started to establish unconstitutional government structures in the Mountainous Karabakh. Armenian sent a huge amount of weapons and ammunition to the territory of Azerbaijan. The ambition of aggression began to aim at Azerbaijan. The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict escalated between 1991 and 1992. An ethic massacre conducted by Armenian armed force on the Mountainous Karabakh and other regions of Azerbaijan. Hundred of peacefully residents were killed and lands were destroyed.

One of the consequences of the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict has been the creation of uncontrolled nuclear zones on the land occupied by Armenian military forces. Radiation and unclear waste in those areas has contaminated thousand hectares of forest, agricultural land, personal plots and two reservations. The increase of nuclear weapons and technologies causing serious danger for the Azerbaijanis and also represents a serious obstacle to the future world peace.

Azerbaijan is committed to the goals of the Treaty and stands for reduction of nuclear arsenals, nuclear technologies and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In July 1992, Azerbaijan ratified the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), which establishes comprehensive limits on conventional military equipment and provides for the destruction of weaponry in excess of those limits. Azerbaijan became a current member for the Peace Framework Document in April 5, 1994 which promised to reinforce stability of world peace and reduce the risk of conflict In July 28, 1997, Azerbaijan signed Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which agreed to bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. Azerbaijan also has acceded to the nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty as a non-nuclear weapons state. For those actions that Azerbaijan had taken, it shows the goal that Azerbaijan have for achieveing world peace. The best way to achieve that is countries’ coorpations on nuclear disarmament.

In the future, Azerbaijan will continue pursue their nuclear non-proliferation policy. In terms of nuclear risks the South Caucasus, the President of Azerbaijan wants to establish a zone free of nuclear weapons in that area.
Azerbaijan demands other countries remove any uncontrolled and uncounted nuclear weapons located on the territory of Azerbaijan. Any presence of any foreign troops on the territory of Azerbaijan is considered inadmissible. And any foreign troops should remove from the Azerbaijan territories. Azerbaijan also hopes that the Russian authorities will undertake all measures to prevent illegal deliveries from happening in the future, to identify and punish officials involved in the illegal deliveries of the Russian weaponry to Armenia and do all the necessary to return those nuclear weapons to Russia.

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