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    Iran's Karabakh mediation mission and liberation of Shoushi: Analysis
    by Iranian studies expert

    12:22 09/05/2013 » ANALYSIS


    By Armen Israyelyan, Iranian studies expert

    Iran was the first country to be a mediator in the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict. At the invitation of Iranian President Akbar Hashemi
    Rafsanjani, a delegation led by first Armenian President Levon
    Ter-Petrosyan arrived in Tehran on May 6, 1992. Among other issues,
    the sides discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Some time after
    Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati's visit to Yerevan,
    Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Vayezi arrived in Azerbaijan
    and Armenia to persuade the sides to reach an agreement on concluding
    a truce.

    On May 8, 1992 Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Azerbaijani
    acting President Yaqub Mammadov and President of the mediator country,
    Iran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, signed a joint declaration on the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, according to which Mahmud Vayezi was to
    visit the region (Baku, Yerevan, Stepanakert) to work out mechanisms
    for truce.

    On May 8, the day when the joint declaration was signed, Shoushi was
    liberated by Armenian forces, and Iran's mediation mission was
    interrupted.

    Although Iran's mediation mission was interrupted by Shoushi's
    liberation, in the following years, as an authoritative member of the
    Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Iran has carried out a balanced
    policy towards the Karabakh issue, which creates a precedent for a
    number of Islamic countries not to give way to Azerbaijan's
    provocations aimed at giving a religious coloring to the Karabakh
    conflict, and to have a neutral position on Karabakh. Iran believes
    that the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group are inefficient and
    therefore it offers mediation to the conflicting parties.

    Although Azerbaijan blames Iran for its defeat in the Karabakh war
    saying that Iran supported Armenia during the war, indeed, Iranian
    officials acknowledge that Iran provided military and financial
    assistance to Azerbaijan during the war.

    Although Iran's ambassador to Azerbaijan, some members of the Iranian
    Majlis and clerics sometimes make statements that run counter to
    Tehran's position, Iran's President and Foreign Minister announce that
    the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should be resolved through negotiations,
    with the involvement of the regional countries, based on the
    fundamental principles of international law.

    Source: Panorama.am




    From: A. Papazian
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