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AZERBAIJAN WORRIED ABOUT IRAN'S REACTION TO ISRAELI PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO BAKU
Interfax
June 3 2009
Russia
Azerbaijan will not allow any foreign interference in its internal
affairs, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said in response to
Tehran's sharp reaction to Israeli President Shimon Perez's planned
visit to Baku this summer.
"Azerbaijan has been pursuing a policy that is based on its national
interests. [Iran's] such reaction raises questions in our country,"
Mammadyarov told a briefing on Wednesday.
According to media reports, a few days ago, Hasan Firouzabadi, chief
of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff, voiced a number of threats
to Azerbaijan in connection with the Israeli president's upcoming
visit to Baku.
"We have never discussed Armenian delegations' visits to Iran. We
have never interfered in the internal affairs of other states, either.
But we will not allow any interference in our affairs," the Azeri
minister said.
The authorities in Baku are studying reports regarding Iran's plans
to begin developing Azerbaijan's Alov deposit in the Caspian Sea,
to which Iran also has claims, he said.
Azerbaijan's late president Heydar Aliyev and senior Iranian officials
agreed that this deposit would not be developed until the delimitation
of the borders in the Caspian Sea area was completed, Mammadyarov said.
"That is why we are interested in solving the delimitation issue as
soon as possible," he said.
Interfax
June 3 2009
Russia
Azerbaijan will not allow any foreign interference in its internal
affairs, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said in response to
Tehran's sharp reaction to Israeli President Shimon Perez's planned
visit to Baku this summer.
"Azerbaijan has been pursuing a policy that is based on its national
interests. [Iran's] such reaction raises questions in our country,"
Mammadyarov told a briefing on Wednesday.
According to media reports, a few days ago, Hasan Firouzabadi, chief
of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff, voiced a number of threats
to Azerbaijan in connection with the Israeli president's upcoming
visit to Baku.
"We have never discussed Armenian delegations' visits to Iran. We
have never interfered in the internal affairs of other states, either.
But we will not allow any interference in our affairs," the Azeri
minister said.
The authorities in Baku are studying reports regarding Iran's plans
to begin developing Azerbaijan's Alov deposit in the Caspian Sea,
to which Iran also has claims, he said.
Azerbaijan's late president Heydar Aliyev and senior Iranian officials
agreed that this deposit would not be developed until the delimitation
of the borders in the Caspian Sea area was completed, Mammadyarov said.
"That is why we are interested in solving the delimitation issue as
soon as possible," he said.