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Fars News Agency, Iran
July 13 2013
Iranian Envoy: Minsk Group Not Interested in Settling Karabakh Dispute
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Pakayeen blasted the
OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Minsk group
which allegedly spearheads efforts in settling the territorial dispute
between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region for
its inaction in resolving the issue.
"The members of the Minsk Group which are a number of trans-regional
states are not interested in settling the dispute and they see no
interests in solving it," Pakayeen said on Saturday.
"The Minsk Group has not yet made any move and has only held some
meetings whose results were clear even before holding them," he added.
Pakayeen underlined that the settlement of the dispute is merely
possible through the participation of the regional states.
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.
In November 2010, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced
Tehran's readiness to help resolve the territorial dispute between
Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
"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," Ahmadinejad said in a
joint press conference with his Azeri counterpart at the time.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920422000322
July 13 2013
Iranian Envoy: Minsk Group Not Interested in Settling Karabakh Dispute
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Pakayeen blasted the
OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Minsk group
which allegedly spearheads efforts in settling the territorial dispute
between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region for
its inaction in resolving the issue.
"The members of the Minsk Group which are a number of trans-regional
states are not interested in settling the dispute and they see no
interests in solving it," Pakayeen said on Saturday.
"The Minsk Group has not yet made any move and has only held some
meetings whose results were clear even before holding them," he added.
Pakayeen underlined that the settlement of the dispute is merely
possible through the participation of the regional states.
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.
In November 2010, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced
Tehran's readiness to help resolve the territorial dispute between
Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
"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," Ahmadinejad said in a
joint press conference with his Azeri counterpart at the time.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920422000322