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Iran ready to mediate in Karabakh dispute: Envoy
The territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, largely populated by Armenians but
located in Azerbaijan, is claimed by Both Azerbaijan and Armenia.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/19/284456/iran-ready-to-mediate-in-karabakh/
Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:28PM GMT
Iran's Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Pak-Ayeen has stressed Tehran's
readiness to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Karabakh
dispute.
Pak-Ayeen said on Saturday that transregional powers do not seek the
resolution of the Karabakh dispute, stressing that continuation of the
conflict will harm regional countries.
He added that foreign powers use the dispute as a tool to pursue their
objectives in South Caucasus.
If requested by the parties to the dispute, Iran is ready to mediate
in and present its plan for the settlement of the conflict, the envoy
said.
Both Azerbaijan and Armenia claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh,
which is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
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 the country that took place 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 intervene in the dispute.
"We believe that the Karabakh issue will be resolved through dialogue
and the commitment of both sides to justice, and Tehran is ready to
negotiate with them within this framework," Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said in a joint press conference with his Azeri
counterpart Ilham Aliyev in November, 2010.
From: A. Papazian
The territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, largely populated by Armenians but
located in Azerbaijan, is claimed by Both Azerbaijan and Armenia.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/19/284456/iran-ready-to-mediate-in-karabakh/
Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:28PM GMT
Iran's Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Pak-Ayeen has stressed Tehran's
readiness to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Karabakh
dispute.
Pak-Ayeen said on Saturday that transregional powers do not seek the
resolution of the Karabakh dispute, stressing that continuation of the
conflict will harm regional countries.
He added that foreign powers use the dispute as a tool to pursue their
objectives in South Caucasus.
If requested by the parties to the dispute, Iran is ready to mediate
in and present its plan for the settlement of the conflict, the envoy
said.
Both Azerbaijan and Armenia claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh,
which is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
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 the country that took place 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 intervene in the dispute.
"We believe that the Karabakh issue will be resolved through dialogue
and the commitment of both sides to justice, and Tehran is ready to
negotiate with them within this framework," Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said in a joint press conference with his Azeri
counterpart Ilham Aliyev in November, 2010.
From: A. Papazian