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On top of that, Azerbaijan continues to deliberately violate relevant international laws and customs related to geographical names. Indeed, for many years, the United Nations Conference on Geograph- ical Names has adopted resolutions regarding geographical names, their treatment criteria and has continuously emphasized that they are part of the world’s intangible cultural heritage46. This approach is based on the idea that place names are memories of places, as well as living memories of the people who gave these names to such places and form an important part of the history of the region. (...) It obliges states to safe- guard and respect intangible cultural heritage, including oral traditions and particular geographical place names. Moreover, the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names has referred to the Conven- tion in various contexts, and it specifically passed the above-referenced resolution “Geographical names as intangible cultural heritage” to address the importance of preserving geographical names as part of a nation’s intangible cultural heritage.48 The Group also adopted a resolution (X/3) “Criteria for establishing and evaluating the nature of geographical names as cultural heritage”, defining the conditions for the proper naming of geographical

., Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation )أ( Place Names and Indigenous Languages – Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Place Names (Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2020)؛ Allison Dollimore and Peter Jordan, eds., Place Names and )ب( Migration: Proceedings of the Symposium in Vienna, 6–8 November 2019 (Hamburg, Germany, 2021).

                                                    “ ”     “”           ”        “        “ ”     “ ”                                                                                                  (Internet Governance)                                    http @ http                          American Standard Code)        ،(for Information Interchange-ASCII          ASCII            (Unicode) Unicode Standard                                                                                                                                              Unicode Standard 5.1        (Arabic Domain Names Task Force: ADN-TF)         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(ccTLDs                                                                                                                               ( U0641-U064A )( U0621-U063A ) ( U002E)ASCII ( U002D ) ASCII  ( U0660-U0669 )90  (U0039-U0030)ASCII0-9               *            *          SSC        SSC        SSC      *                       (character folding)                                            (user interface)                                                ASCII                                                                                                                                        (Internet Governance Forum: IGF)                Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and)  Internet Society:)  (Numbers: ICANN        (ISOC                         Public Interest Registry (PIR)            ،Afiliasو                                      Internet Engineering Task Force:)   (IETF          (ICANN)                                                     Expert Group Meeting   (EGM )                                                http://www.arabic-domains.org/docs/guide_lines_for_bulding_dn.doc  *                                                         (Arabic generic top-level domains: Arabic gTLDs)                                                                              (registries/registrars)                                              • •                                                                                       • • • • •                                                                                  • • •                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  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S/2017/567 األمــم املتحـدة Distr.: General جملس األمن 30 June 2017 Arabic Original: English 070717 070717 17-11206 (A) *1711206*

Non-governmental organizations 1- Asociación Proteger (PAC), Buenos Aires, Argentina 2- Campaign for a Hydrogen Economy (CHEC), Manchester, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 3- Fundación Argentina a las Naciones Camino a la Verdad (FANCV), Buenos Aires, Argentina 4- Fundación Cidonio, Caracas, Venezuela 5- SILVA, Arbres, Forêts et Sociétés, Paris, France 6- Stiftelsen för Miljöstrategisk Forskning [Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research] (MISTRA), Stockholm, Sweden 7- Sustainable Energy Institute (SEI), Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America - - - - - ____________________ 1 The names of the organizations listed here are the legally recognized names, and this list has not been translated.

With the said amendment, the Greek Cypriot side seeks to punish anyone who acts against the decisions of the so-called “Cyprus Permanent Committee for the Standardization of Geographical Names” which has, in the guise of “standardization”, unilaterally portrayed geographical and place names in the whole Island, including the North. (...) The United Nations has taken a leading role in facilitating the setting of common rules for standardization of names in Conferences held under its auspices. The guiding principle adopted for standardization in these Conferences has been a practical one; it relates to how the inhabitants refer to an area. The Greek Cypriot Committee, on the other hand, admitted before a number of UN Conferences, such as in the report it has submitted in the Fifth UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names in 1987, its own inability to engage in proper standardization in the North where it does not have the competence to verify place names under the control and jurisdiction of the Turkish Cypriot authorities, where the Greek Cypriot administration exercises no control or jurisdiction.

However, as regards the names of the new sites opened for worship in the North, it is observed that the name of Church of Ayia Marina in Değirmenlik/Kythrea is omitted from the Report. (...) Concerning the references to geographical places in Paragraph 38 and Paragraph 40 solely with their Greek names, I would like to stress that Cyprus is the common home of both the Turkish Cypriot people and the Greek Cypriot people where a great number of locations enjoy both Turkish and Greek names. Therefore, references to such places without indication of their Turkish names are unacceptable. In this case, the Turkish names should be indicated for the sake of consistency, similar to the approach followed in Paragraph 41.