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ROUHANI REITERATES PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH DISPUTE
Fars News Agency, Iran
April 9 2014
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined Tehran's
resolve to utilize its experiences to maintain peace and security in
the region, including settlement of the dispute between Azerbaijan
and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region
"We are by all means ready to resolve the regional problems,
including the one in Nagorno-Karabakh region, within the framework
of international regulations and justice," President Rouhani said,
addressing a joint press conference with his visiting Azeri counterpart
Ilham Aliyev in Tehran on Wednesday.
He underlined that Iran does not accept any change to the geographical
borders of the region, and said, "We should all try to settle these
differences in a political and peaceful manner."
The Iranian president pointed to his talks with his Azeri counterpart,
and said, "W share common views on energy, gas and the petrochemical
sectors as well as water, power and technical cooperation"
President Rouhani said that during his meeting with Aliyev they talked
about expansion of bilateral ties in the future.
"We agreed to facilitate reciprocal visits of the two countries'
nationals," the Iranian president said.
Rouhani noted that he and Aliyev had common views on religious and
Islamic issues, including the point that extremism under the name of
Islam is a threat to the region and in order to restore stability
to the region there is no way other than moderation and fighting
extremism and terrorism.
"The two countries share views on international issues and their
mutual cooperation and the Azeri president in the meeting underlined
Iran's peaceful nuclear rights," the Iranian president said.
The Azeri president, for his part, underlined the need for maintaining
the territorial integrity of his country, and said, "Iran's stance
in this regard is closer to justice and fairness and I thank Iran
for this."
On December 2013, a senior Azeri political activist underlined Iran's
experiences and abilities in facing regional crises, and called
for Tehran's assistance to end the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between
Azerbaijan and Armenia.
President of Vahdat (Unity) Political Party and former member of
Supreme Council of Azerbaijan Republic Taher Karimli said that the
Minsk Group (Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Minister for
European Affairs of France Thierry Repentin, US Assistant Secretary of
State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland) have expressed
their pleasure in Iran's mediation to solve the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict.
Karimli stressed that Azerbaijan Republic Vahdat Party has always
supported Iran's mediation to find a peaceful solution to the conflict
between Baku and Yerevan, because of many historical, cultural and
religious commonalities existing between Iran and Azerbaijan.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have thus remained officially at war over the
Nagorno-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.
Fars News Agency, Iran
April 9 2014
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined Tehran's
resolve to utilize its experiences to maintain peace and security in
the region, including settlement of the dispute between Azerbaijan
and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region
"We are by all means ready to resolve the regional problems,
including the one in Nagorno-Karabakh region, within the framework
of international regulations and justice," President Rouhani said,
addressing a joint press conference with his visiting Azeri counterpart
Ilham Aliyev in Tehran on Wednesday.
He underlined that Iran does not accept any change to the geographical
borders of the region, and said, "We should all try to settle these
differences in a political and peaceful manner."
The Iranian president pointed to his talks with his Azeri counterpart,
and said, "W share common views on energy, gas and the petrochemical
sectors as well as water, power and technical cooperation"
President Rouhani said that during his meeting with Aliyev they talked
about expansion of bilateral ties in the future.
"We agreed to facilitate reciprocal visits of the two countries'
nationals," the Iranian president said.
Rouhani noted that he and Aliyev had common views on religious and
Islamic issues, including the point that extremism under the name of
Islam is a threat to the region and in order to restore stability
to the region there is no way other than moderation and fighting
extremism and terrorism.
"The two countries share views on international issues and their
mutual cooperation and the Azeri president in the meeting underlined
Iran's peaceful nuclear rights," the Iranian president said.
The Azeri president, for his part, underlined the need for maintaining
the territorial integrity of his country, and said, "Iran's stance
in this regard is closer to justice and fairness and I thank Iran
for this."
On December 2013, a senior Azeri political activist underlined Iran's
experiences and abilities in facing regional crises, and called
for Tehran's assistance to end the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between
Azerbaijan and Armenia.
President of Vahdat (Unity) Political Party and former member of
Supreme Council of Azerbaijan Republic Taher Karimli said that the
Minsk Group (Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Minister for
European Affairs of France Thierry Repentin, US Assistant Secretary of
State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland) have expressed
their pleasure in Iran's mediation to solve the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict.
Karimli stressed that Azerbaijan Republic Vahdat Party has always
supported Iran's mediation to find a peaceful solution to the conflict
between Baku and Yerevan, because of many historical, cultural and
religious commonalities existing between Iran and Azerbaijan.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have thus remained officially at war over the
Nagorno-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.