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It is very important for a fair and peaceful future that the South Caucasus ceases to be one of the areas of conflict and tension in the world, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, addressing the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

“It is unacceptable that Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding areas, which are the Azerbaijani territories, are still occupied despite all of the resolutions adopted,” he said.

Erdogan called on UN members to back Ankara's efforts to ensure security in Syria's Idlib to avoid mass migration and massacres.

He said, Turkey is "the most generous country" with humanitarian aid, hosting five million displaced people fleeing conflict, starvation, persecution.

He also warned that the "inequality" between states which have nuclear power and those which do not undermines global balances, according to Al Jazeera.

"The position of nuclear power should either be forbidden for all or permissible for everyone," Erdogan said.

The Turkish president said today the Palestinian territory under Israeli 'occupation' has become one of the most striking places of injustice. He held up a map of Israel and Palestine to demonstrate Israel’s changing border from 1947 to today.

The 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly is taking place in New York on September 24-30.