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    Press TV, Iran
    Aug 3 2014

    Iran urges Armenia-Azerbaijan dialog over disputed area


    Iran has called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to hold talks and reach an
    agreement following a sharp escalation of fighting between the two
    countries over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Sunday that
    the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia has no "military
    solution."

    She expressed regret over the killing of Azeri soldiers in the recent
    military conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia and said Iran is
    concerned about skirmishes between the two sides.

    Afkham invited both Armenia and Azerbaijan to exercise restraint.

    The Iranian spokeswoman's remarks came as at least 15 people have been
    killed in skirmishes between Azeri government forces and ethnic
    Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in a flare-up of violence over
    the last few days.

    The two ex-Soviet Caucasus nations claim the territory of
    Nagorno-Karabakh, which is largely populated by Armenians.

    Ethnic Armenian forces took control of 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 ceasefire 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.

    SF/HMV

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