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IRAN READY TO MEDIATE FOR AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Iran
July 14, 2013 Sunday
TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsen Pakaein once
again expressed his country's readiness to go between Azerbaijan and
Armenia to resolve the long-term Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
Pakaein said that Iran could act as a mediator in resolving the
dispute provided that Armenia and Azerbaijani give their consent.
"If the two countries are willing, Iran, as an influential country
in the region, the chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and
the also an active member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC), will enter negotiations with the countries in question and
will present its views on the resolution of the dispute," Press TV
quoted Pakaein as saying.
He said the security of the region could be at stake as there will
always be the risk of a war unless the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute
is settled.
Given the fact that Iran has land borders with both Azerbaijan and
Armenia, any violation of the region's stability in the border areas
would have a negative impact on Iran as well, the envoy added.
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.
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Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Iran
July 14, 2013 Sunday
TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsen Pakaein once
again expressed his country's readiness to go between Azerbaijan and
Armenia to resolve the long-term Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
Pakaein said that Iran could act as a mediator in resolving the
dispute provided that Armenia and Azerbaijani give their consent.
"If the two countries are willing, Iran, as an influential country
in the region, the chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and
the also an active member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC), will enter negotiations with the countries in question and
will present its views on the resolution of the dispute," Press TV
quoted Pakaein as saying.
He said the security of the region could be at stake as there will
always be the risk of a war unless the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute
is settled.
Given the fact that Iran has land borders with both Azerbaijan and
Armenia, any violation of the region's stability in the border areas
would have a negative impact on Iran as well, the envoy added.
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.
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