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Fars News Agency , Iran
Sept 19 2010
Iranian VP Blasts US Interference in Karabakh Issue
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Seyed
Mohammad Reza Mir-Tajeddini lashed out at the US for its interference
in the Karabakh dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, warning that
Washington's interference in other countries' affairs has always
aggravated problems.
"Whenever the US has interfered in an issue, it has left no effect but
damaging the relations between countries, "Mir-Tajeddini said on the
sidelines of a conference on Azerbaijan here in Tehran on Sunday.
He made the remarks in reference to the territorial dispute between
Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Meantime, Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohammad Baqer Bahrami
announced in March this year that Azerbaijan and Armenia have both
asked Iran to mediate in the dispute.
"The two sides have accepted that Iran (should) utilize all the
potential which exists in the region to help resolve the crisis in
this region," the envoy said at the time.
Mir-Tajeddini referred to the Tehran negotiations on the Karabakh
issue, and said the talks were making good progress towards the
resolution of the dispute between Yerevan and Baku, but the US
interference and its provocative positions prevented a good end to the
issue.
He further called on the neighboring countries of Armenia and
Azerbaijan to work out a negotiated end to the dispute, and said that
the Turkish, Georgian and Russian officials should hold talks with
Azeri and Armenian statesmen in a bid to resolve the problem in a fair
manner.
Armenia and Azerbaijan remain officially at war over Karabakh and the
dispute is a major source of tension in the South Caucasus region
wedged between Iran, Russia and Turkey.
No country - not even Armenia - officially recognizes Karabakh as an
independent state.
The rebel region has been controlled by ethnic Armenians since it
broke free of Baku's control after a fierce war in the early 1990s
that killed 30,000 people.
From: A. Papazian
Sept 19 2010
Iranian VP Blasts US Interference in Karabakh Issue
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Seyed
Mohammad Reza Mir-Tajeddini lashed out at the US for its interference
in the Karabakh dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, warning that
Washington's interference in other countries' affairs has always
aggravated problems.
"Whenever the US has interfered in an issue, it has left no effect but
damaging the relations between countries, "Mir-Tajeddini said on the
sidelines of a conference on Azerbaijan here in Tehran on Sunday.
He made the remarks in reference to the territorial dispute between
Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Meantime, Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohammad Baqer Bahrami
announced in March this year that Azerbaijan and Armenia have both
asked Iran to mediate in the dispute.
"The two sides have accepted that Iran (should) utilize all the
potential which exists in the region to help resolve the crisis in
this region," the envoy said at the time.
Mir-Tajeddini referred to the Tehran negotiations on the Karabakh
issue, and said the talks were making good progress towards the
resolution of the dispute between Yerevan and Baku, but the US
interference and its provocative positions prevented a good end to the
issue.
He further called on the neighboring countries of Armenia and
Azerbaijan to work out a negotiated end to the dispute, and said that
the Turkish, Georgian and Russian officials should hold talks with
Azeri and Armenian statesmen in a bid to resolve the problem in a fair
manner.
Armenia and Azerbaijan remain officially at war over Karabakh and the
dispute is a major source of tension in the South Caucasus region
wedged between Iran, Russia and Turkey.
No country - not even Armenia - officially recognizes Karabakh as an
independent state.
The rebel region has been controlled by ethnic Armenians since it
broke free of Baku's control after a fierce war in the early 1990s
that killed 30,000 people.
From: A. Papazian