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AZERI FM WELCOMES IRAN'S MEDIATION IN KARABAKH DISPUTE
Fars News Agency, Iran
July 19 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
underlined that his country welcomes Iran's proposal for the settlement
of the territorial dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the
Nagorno-Karabakh region.
"Baku wants the process of settling the dispute to begin with
withdrawal of Armenian forces from the occupied territory," the Azeri
foreign minister said on Thursday.
He noted that the efforts by the so-called Minsk Group have so far
been in vain.
Last week, 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.
"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.
Fars News Agency, Iran
July 19 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
underlined that his country welcomes Iran's proposal for the settlement
of the territorial dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the
Nagorno-Karabakh region.
"Baku wants the process of settling the dispute to begin with
withdrawal of Armenian forces from the occupied territory," the Azeri
foreign minister said on Thursday.
He noted that the efforts by the so-called Minsk Group have so far
been in vain.
Last week, 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.
"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.