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ENVOY: IRAN READY TO MEDIATE IN KARABAKH DISPUTE
FARS News Agency
November 13, 2012 Tuesday
Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Pakayeen voiced
Tehran's readiness to help resolve the territorial dispute between
Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, cautioning
that the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
Minsk group which spearheads efforts in this regard is not completely
impartial.
"Iran as the rotating president of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
and active member of the Islamic Cooperation Organization (OIC) is
ready to mediate and help end the skirmishes, revive the conditions
prevailing before the conflict, including observation of borderlines,"
Pakayeen said in an interview with Azeri Trend news agency.
Noting that the Karabakh issue is a 20-year-old dispute and Azerbaijan
and Armenia have chosen the OSCE Minsk group to settle the issue,
he said, "I believe that the Minsk group is not impartial in this
dispute and the settlement of the Karabakh dispute has, thus, failed
to be successful."
In November 2010, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also 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.
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 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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
FARS News Agency
November 13, 2012 Tuesday
Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Pakayeen voiced
Tehran's readiness to help resolve the territorial dispute between
Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, cautioning
that the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
Minsk group which spearheads efforts in this regard is not completely
impartial.
"Iran as the rotating president of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
and active member of the Islamic Cooperation Organization (OIC) is
ready to mediate and help end the skirmishes, revive the conditions
prevailing before the conflict, including observation of borderlines,"
Pakayeen said in an interview with Azeri Trend news agency.
Noting that the Karabakh issue is a 20-year-old dispute and Azerbaijan
and Armenia have chosen the OSCE Minsk group to settle the issue,
he said, "I believe that the Minsk group is not impartial in this
dispute and the settlement of the Karabakh dispute has, thus, failed
to be successful."
In November 2010, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also 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.
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 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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress