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    NATO NOT PLANNING MILITARY INVASION OF IRAN - ALLIANCE REPRESENTATIVE

    Central Asia General Newswire
    April 11, 2006 Tuesday 5:29 PM MSK

    NATO has no plans to stage a military invasion of Iran, said NATO
    Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia Robert
    Simmons.

    Speaking at a news briefing in Baku on Tuesday following negotiations
    with the Azerbaijani leadership, Simmons said, however, that NATO is
    concerned about the situation in Iran and hopes that the negotiating
    process involving three of its members, Germany, the UK and France,
    will be completed successfully.

    Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said Baku is also concerned
    by how the Iran crisis will be resolved, due to the geographical
    proximity of the two states.

    Azerbaijan is following the negotiating process with Iran closely,
    he said.

    "The problem is currently being discussed at the UN Security Council,
    and we hope that it will be resolved at a political, diplomatic level,"
    Azimov said.

    Azimov also pointed out that, while the Iranian nuclear problem poses
    a strategic threat to Azerbaijan, the Metsamor nuclear power plant
    functioning in neighboring Armenia is a real threat to Azerbaijan's
    and the entire region's security, which, he said, has been confirmed
    by international experts.
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