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Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
August 16, 2011 Tuesday
FM: It would be logical to hear Iranian Armed Forces Staff Chief's
call to Armenia to withdraw occupying forces from Azerbaijani
territory
by E. Tariverdiyeva, Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan
Aug. 16--AzerbaijanThe Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has not received
an official response to a note of protest delivered to Iranian
ambassador in connection with the statements of the Chief of Staff of
the Iranian Armed Forces Seyyed Hassan Firouzabadi.
He spoke about the Azerbaijani leadership and people through the
Iranian news agency FARS, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry official
representative Elkhan Polukhov told Trend.
Commenting on Firouzabadi's statements, Polukhov said that it was
strange to hear the military's political appeals toward the country,
which he calls a friendly country.
It is also strange to see how his ministry cooperates with Armenia,
which holds 20 percent of the Azerbaijani territories under
occupation.
"It would be logical to hear Firouzabadi's call and demand to Armenian
militarists to withdraw occupying forces from Azerbaijani territory
and to restore the violated rights of more than one million
Azerbaijani refugees and internally displaced persons," Polukhov said.
He said that in this case, Firouzabadi would perform a role more
corresponding to his position.
Azerbaijan delivered a note of protest to Iran due to unreasonable
statements made by the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces
Seyyed Hassan Firouzabadi toward the Azerbaijani leadership and people
posted on Iranian Fars news agency's issue, Azerbaijani Foreign
Ministry said.
Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohammad Bagher Bahrami was summoned
to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
Receiving Bahrami Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Nadir Huseynov
delivered the Azerbaijani side's protest note to him.
The Foreign Ministry's note expresses strong protest against Iranian
official's irresponsible slanders and notes that publication of
statements on the Iranian press against the Azerbaijani people and
government, which are contrary to Azerbaijan's national interests and
security and distort domestic and foreign policy, contradicts the
existing friendly relations between the two countries and their mutual
obligations.
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry demanded the Iranian side to prevent
further spread of such slanders, take the necessary steps so shat such
a situation was not repeated any more, and demanded an explanation on
the matter.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
August 16, 2011 Tuesday
FM: It would be logical to hear Iranian Armed Forces Staff Chief's
call to Armenia to withdraw occupying forces from Azerbaijani
territory
by E. Tariverdiyeva, Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan
Aug. 16--AzerbaijanThe Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has not received
an official response to a note of protest delivered to Iranian
ambassador in connection with the statements of the Chief of Staff of
the Iranian Armed Forces Seyyed Hassan Firouzabadi.
He spoke about the Azerbaijani leadership and people through the
Iranian news agency FARS, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry official
representative Elkhan Polukhov told Trend.
Commenting on Firouzabadi's statements, Polukhov said that it was
strange to hear the military's political appeals toward the country,
which he calls a friendly country.
It is also strange to see how his ministry cooperates with Armenia,
which holds 20 percent of the Azerbaijani territories under
occupation.
"It would be logical to hear Firouzabadi's call and demand to Armenian
militarists to withdraw occupying forces from Azerbaijani territory
and to restore the violated rights of more than one million
Azerbaijani refugees and internally displaced persons," Polukhov said.
He said that in this case, Firouzabadi would perform a role more
corresponding to his position.
Azerbaijan delivered a note of protest to Iran due to unreasonable
statements made by the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces
Seyyed Hassan Firouzabadi toward the Azerbaijani leadership and people
posted on Iranian Fars news agency's issue, Azerbaijani Foreign
Ministry said.
Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohammad Bagher Bahrami was summoned
to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
Receiving Bahrami Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Nadir Huseynov
delivered the Azerbaijani side's protest note to him.
The Foreign Ministry's note expresses strong protest against Iranian
official's irresponsible slanders and notes that publication of
statements on the Iranian press against the Azerbaijani people and
government, which are contrary to Azerbaijan's national interests and
security and distort domestic and foreign policy, contradicts the
existing friendly relations between the two countries and their mutual
obligations.
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry demanded the Iranian side to prevent
further spread of such slanders, take the necessary steps so shat such
a situation was not repeated any more, and demanded an explanation on
the matter.