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SENIOR MP: IRAN READY TO MEDIATE IN KARABAKH DISPUTE
Fars News Agency, Iran
Sept 26 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior member of the Iranian parliament's National
Security and Foreign Policy Commission voiced Tehran's readiness to
help resolve the territorial dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia
over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Javad Jahangirzadeh, who is in Baku heading a parliamentary delegation,
in an interview with reporters underlined necessity of settlement of
Karabakh conflict by using regional capacity.
Referring to his meetings with Azerbaijan Republic speaker of
parliament, members of parliamentary friendship group and executive
secretary of New Azerbaijan Party, Jahangirzadeh said an important
axis of negotiations had been Karabakh conflict.
He added that conflict in Karabakh is a sensitive issue for Iran
and that Iran has always condemned foreign interference in domestic
affairs of other countries and believes that borders of all countries
should be respected by neighbors.
He expressed Iran's readiness to help settling Karabakh conflict
in direction of providing security and tranquility in the region,
adding that since forming the Minsk Group, Iran has declared that the
group does not have a suitable structure to solve Karabakh conflict
between the two countries of Azerbaijan Republic and Armenia.
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 thus 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 mountainous 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.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920704000307
Fars News Agency, Iran
Sept 26 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior member of the Iranian parliament's National
Security and Foreign Policy Commission voiced Tehran's readiness to
help resolve the territorial dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia
over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Javad Jahangirzadeh, who is in Baku heading a parliamentary delegation,
in an interview with reporters underlined necessity of settlement of
Karabakh conflict by using regional capacity.
Referring to his meetings with Azerbaijan Republic speaker of
parliament, members of parliamentary friendship group and executive
secretary of New Azerbaijan Party, Jahangirzadeh said an important
axis of negotiations had been Karabakh conflict.
He added that conflict in Karabakh is a sensitive issue for Iran
and that Iran has always condemned foreign interference in domestic
affairs of other countries and believes that borders of all countries
should be respected by neighbors.
He expressed Iran's readiness to help settling Karabakh conflict
in direction of providing security and tranquility in the region,
adding that since forming the Minsk Group, Iran has declared that the
group does not have a suitable structure to solve Karabakh conflict
between the two countries of Azerbaijan Republic and Armenia.
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 thus 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 mountainous 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.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920704000307