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IRAN, ARMENIA STRESS SETTLEMENT OF SYRIAN CRISIS THROUGH INTERNAL TALKS
14:33 | 2012-12-26
Foriegn Policy
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian and Armenian officials in a meeting in Yerevan
underlined the necessity for a peaceful settlement of the crisis in
Syria through talks between the government and the opposition.
The issue was raised in a meeting between Iran's Deputy Foreign
Minister for Asia and Oceania Seyed Abbas Araqchi and Armenian Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandian on Tuesday.
The two sides also expressed concern about the situation in Syria and
underscored the necessity for holding Syrian-Syrian talks between the
government and the opposition forces to settle the problems
peacefully.
During the meeting, Araqchi also submitted a message from Iranian
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to the Armenian top diplomat.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized
attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border
guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have
been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups
for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from
abroad.
As an evidence for foreign states' meddling in Syria's crisis,
recently a group of 39 Chechen terrorists left London's Heathrow
airport last week for Istanbul to sneak into Syria via the Turkish
borders and join other terrorist and armed rebel groups in the war on
Damascus.
The 39 terrorists were not the first group of Chechens sent to Syria.
When armed rebellion against the Damascus government broke out,
Chechen terrorists were among the first foreign troops sent to Syria
through Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Britain.
All throughout the last century, Chechens who had always been treated
like an enemy, or at least a second class citizen, both under Tsarist
and Communist Russia mostly left their land for various world
countries, especially in the Middle-East.
14:33 | 2012-12-26
Foriegn Policy
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian and Armenian officials in a meeting in Yerevan
underlined the necessity for a peaceful settlement of the crisis in
Syria through talks between the government and the opposition.
The issue was raised in a meeting between Iran's Deputy Foreign
Minister for Asia and Oceania Seyed Abbas Araqchi and Armenian Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandian on Tuesday.
The two sides also expressed concern about the situation in Syria and
underscored the necessity for holding Syrian-Syrian talks between the
government and the opposition forces to settle the problems
peacefully.
During the meeting, Araqchi also submitted a message from Iranian
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to the Armenian top diplomat.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized
attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border
guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have
been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups
for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from
abroad.
As an evidence for foreign states' meddling in Syria's crisis,
recently a group of 39 Chechen terrorists left London's Heathrow
airport last week for Istanbul to sneak into Syria via the Turkish
borders and join other terrorist and armed rebel groups in the war on
Damascus.
The 39 terrorists were not the first group of Chechens sent to Syria.
When armed rebellion against the Damascus government broke out,
Chechen terrorists were among the first foreign troops sent to Syria
through Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Britain.
All throughout the last century, Chechens who had always been treated
like an enemy, or at least a second class citizen, both under Tsarist
and Communist Russia mostly left their land for various world
countries, especially in the Middle-East.