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IRAN READY TO MEDIATE IN KARABAKH DISPUTE: SPOKESMAN
Press TV, Iran
April 4 2013
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has voiced
Tehran's readiness to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia to bring
about a peaceful resolution of the Karabakh dispute.
"Regarding the Karabakh crisis, if the two countries of Azerbaijan
and Armenia show willingness, we are ready to use all capacities to
move in the direction [of resolving the dispute]," Mehmanparast said
on Wednesday.
The Iranian official stressed regional cooperation to facilitate a
peaceful resolution of crises, calling on Azerbaijan and Armenia to
peacefully settle their dispute and remove tensions in the region.
The territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is claimed by both Azerbaijan
and Armenia.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control over the enclave, which accounts
for 16 percent of Azerbaijan, in the early 1990s during a six-year
war with Azerbaijan that lasted from February 1988 to May 1994.
The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million
displaced before the two sides agreed to a cease-fire in 1994.
However, a peace accord has never been signed and the dispute still
remains unsettled.
Iran has on several occasions offered to mediate in the dispute.
YH/HJL
Press TV, Iran
April 4 2013
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has voiced
Tehran's readiness to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia to bring
about a peaceful resolution of the Karabakh dispute.
"Regarding the Karabakh crisis, if the two countries of Azerbaijan
and Armenia show willingness, we are ready to use all capacities to
move in the direction [of resolving the dispute]," Mehmanparast said
on Wednesday.
The Iranian official stressed regional cooperation to facilitate a
peaceful resolution of crises, calling on Azerbaijan and Armenia to
peacefully settle their dispute and remove tensions in the region.
The territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is claimed by both Azerbaijan
and Armenia.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control over the enclave, which accounts
for 16 percent of Azerbaijan, in the early 1990s during a six-year
war with Azerbaijan that lasted from February 1988 to May 1994.
The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million
displaced before the two sides agreed to a cease-fire in 1994.
However, a peace accord has never been signed and the dispute still
remains unsettled.
Iran has on several occasions offered to mediate in the dispute.
YH/HJL