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Press TV, Iran
Sept 19 2010
'Iran supports Azerbaijan over Karabakh'
Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:12PM
Iran's Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad-Reza
Mir-TajeddiniIran's Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs
Mohammad-Reza Mir-Tajeddini says Tehran has always supported
Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
"Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan and Iran will not accept any act of
aggression against this region or its occupation," Mir-Tajeddini said
on Sunday.
Mir-Tajeddini said officials from Turkey, Georgia and Russia should
hold a meeting with Azerbaijani and Armenian authorities to resolve
the Karabakh dispute through negotiation and based on justice.
Referring to US interferences in Karabakh dispute, Mir-Tajeddini said
US meddling has never yielded any result but "damaging relations
between other countries."
Iran has extended an offer to mediate between Armenia and Azerbaijan
over the dispute, and Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki
earlier suggested a trilateral meeting with his Armenian and
Azerbaijani counterparts to resolve the dispute.
Both Azerbaijan and Armenia claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh,
which is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region
during a war with Azerbaijan in the early 1990s.
The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million
displaced before the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in 1994. However,
a peace accord has never been signed.
MYA/HGH/MMN
From: A. Papazian
Sept 19 2010
'Iran supports Azerbaijan over Karabakh'
Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:12PM
Iran's Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad-Reza
Mir-TajeddiniIran's Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs
Mohammad-Reza Mir-Tajeddini says Tehran has always supported
Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
"Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan and Iran will not accept any act of
aggression against this region or its occupation," Mir-Tajeddini said
on Sunday.
Mir-Tajeddini said officials from Turkey, Georgia and Russia should
hold a meeting with Azerbaijani and Armenian authorities to resolve
the Karabakh dispute through negotiation and based on justice.
Referring to US interferences in Karabakh dispute, Mir-Tajeddini said
US meddling has never yielded any result but "damaging relations
between other countries."
Iran has extended an offer to mediate between Armenia and Azerbaijan
over the dispute, and Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki
earlier suggested a trilateral meeting with his Armenian and
Azerbaijani counterparts to resolve the dispute.
Both Azerbaijan and Armenia claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh,
which is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region
during a war with Azerbaijan in the early 1990s.
The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million
displaced before the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in 1994. However,
a peace accord has never been signed.
MYA/HGH/MMN
From: A. Papazian