https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❗" title="Rotes Ausrufezeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Ausrufezeichen">The conflict in #NagornoKarabakh has complex legal and historical background, but #Azerbaijan has been referring to #UNSC resolutions to back its claims and justify military action... So I researched a bit to understand what exactly those resolutions say and mean...https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> The UN Security Council adopted 4 resolutions on #NagornoKarabakh (no 822, 853, 874, 884) at the height of fighting in 1993, exercising its main function of [trying to] maintain peace and security.

Key conclusions from the text of the resolutions: https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> The four resolutions indicate that Nagorno-Karabakh (and not Armenia!) and Azerbaijan are the parties to the conflict.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> The resolutions require withdrawal of Nagorno-Karabakh forces from the ‘occupied’ territories adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh, NOT #NagornoKarabakh itself (makes sense, just like you couldn’t ask the English to withdraw from England...).

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen">Nagorno-Karabakh appears to have never been part of independent Azerbaijan because its population voted out while still within USSR and under the laws at the time.

(Not directly indicated in the text but can be derived from the vague language and reviews of historical events).

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Azerbaijan now claims the occupied territories INCLUDING Nagorno-Karabakh referring to the principle of territorial integrity and citing UN SC resolutions.
However... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> The UN Security Council does not have the legal powers to determine legal or political aspects of a conflict, including territorial claims. It is there to ensure peace, not more, not less.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> In other words, #Azerbaijan cannot use these resolutions as legal justification for territorial claims over #NagornoKarabakh or use of force, which actually goes against the very nature of #UNSC mission (the issue of adjacent territories is separate but still)!

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