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FM SPOKESMAN: IRAN READY TO MEDIATE IN KARABAKH DISPUTE
Fars News Agency, Iran
April 4 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast
voiced Tehran's readiness to help resolve the territorial dispute
between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
"If the two countries of Azerbaijan and Armenia show willingness,
we wil be ready to use all our capacities to help resolve the dispute
over the Nagorno-Karabakh region," Mehman-Parast said in the Armenian
capital city of Yerevan on Wednesday.
The Iranian diplomat urged Baku and Yerevan to peacefully settle
their dispute and remove tensions in the region.
Despite facing strong international pressure, the Armenian and
Azerbaijani leaders have failed to agree on the basic principles of
ending the Karabakh conflict put forward by Russia, the United States,
and France in 2011.
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: Baghdasarian
Fars News Agency, Iran
April 4 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast
voiced Tehran's readiness to help resolve the territorial dispute
between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
"If the two countries of Azerbaijan and Armenia show willingness,
we wil be ready to use all our capacities to help resolve the dispute
over the Nagorno-Karabakh region," Mehman-Parast said in the Armenian
capital city of Yerevan on Wednesday.
The Iranian diplomat urged Baku and Yerevan to peacefully settle
their dispute and remove tensions in the region.
Despite facing strong international pressure, the Armenian and
Azerbaijani leaders have failed to agree on the basic principles of
ending the Karabakh conflict put forward by Russia, the United States,
and France in 2011.
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: Baghdasarian