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ARMENIAN FM THANKS IRAN'S "BALANCED" STANCE ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH DISPUTE
Fars News Agency, Iran
May 5 2014
TEHRAN (FNA)- Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian praised
Iran for its logical stance on his country's dispute with Azerbaijan
over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
"I appreciate Iran for its moderate and balanced stances on Armenia's
dispute with Azerbaijan," Nalbandian said in a joint press conference
with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif here in Tehran
on Monday.
The Armenian foreign minister reiterated that during his talks with
Zarif they have discussed achievement of a peaceful solution to the
Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
Despite facing strong international pressures, the Armenian and
Azerbaijani leaders have failed to agree on the basic principles
of ending the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict put forward by Russia, the
United States, and France in 2011.
Armenia and Azerbaijan thus remain officially at war over
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
May 5 2014
TEHRAN (FNA)- Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian praised
Iran for its logical stance on his country's dispute with Azerbaijan
over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
"I appreciate Iran for its moderate and balanced stances on Armenia's
dispute with Azerbaijan," Nalbandian said in a joint press conference
with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif here in Tehran
on Monday.
The Armenian foreign minister reiterated that during his talks with
Zarif they have discussed achievement of a peaceful solution to the
Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
Despite facing strong international pressures, the Armenian and
Azerbaijani leaders have failed to agree on the basic principles
of ending the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict put forward by Russia, the
United States, and France in 2011.
Armenia and Azerbaijan thus remain officially at war over
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.