Armenia seeks Iran’s support under pressure from Azerbaijan, while Azerbaijan also praises the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic actions. Both believe that international guarantors France, Russia and the United States are not doing enough to end the conflict in the South Caucasus region.
In the absence of any indication of Armenian-Azerbaijani fighting on the Nagorno-Karabakh territory, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on Azerbaijan to establish tripartite talks with Iran, Russia and Turkey to resolve the conflict.
Such a method is used by France, Russia and the US of the Minsk Group in Europe. The co-chair will complement the existing process led by the organization and the organization.
In the comments delivered on Newsweek, U.S. In Armenian Ambassador Varuzan Nersey responded to the Iranian offer.
“We appreciate Iran’s balanced approach and efforts towards a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which has been going on since 1991.” “Iran is a neighboring country to Armenia and Azerbaijan, and it shares its border with the republic of Artashak.”
The self-proclaimed Artaxerx Republic is a separatist state made up of mostly ethnic Armenians in the internationally recognized Nagorno-Karabakh region as part of Albertan, which seeks to regain control of the region. Azerbaijan has the backing of Turkey, another neighbor with historically weak ties with Armenia, which sees Tehran’s role in helping to ease the pressure on Baku and Ankara.
“In terms of negotiations that could end the aggression in the region, I think Iran has the potential and it can urge Azerbaijan to control and use its Turkey not to add fuel to the fire in Nagorno-Karabakh.” Newsweek.
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Baku’s own envoy in Washington, Washington, had earlier on Friday responded to the Iranian to Fur and also welcomed Tehran’s fur while expressing frustration over the Minsk Group’s efforts.
“Azerbaijan appreciates every offer to help us achieve the much-needed peace in our region,” said Elin Sulemanov, Azerbaijan’s ambassador to the United States. Newsweek At that time. “At the same time, the OSCE has been engaged in mediation between the Minsk Group for the last 28 years. Unfortunately, very little progress has been made as a result of these negotiations.”
The Minsk group has repeatedly expressed hostile concerns over allegations that civilians have been targeted and called for an immediate ceasefire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron also discussed the matter in a phone call on Tuesday. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is also expected to meet separately with top diplomats from Armenia and Azerbaijan soon.
Suleimanov said Azerbaijan was ready to resume UN Security Council resolution negotiations within the framework of the Minsk group “as soon as possible” and rejected the nine-member group’s recent “delay and disregard for peace talks” on Armenia. . It also includes Belarus, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Turkey.
To improve the negotiations, Baku co-chairs will seek to see more representation outside of Paris, Moscow and Washington.
“We also believe that the negotiation process should also include the Minsk Group, and with the more active participation of all members of the Minsk Group, including Germany and Turkey,” said Suleimanov, among others. Newsweek.
When it comes to Turkey, however, its Armenian counterpart said there is very little room to participate because of the country’s alliance with Azerbaijan.
“The only possible settlement should be based on mutual agreement between all parties – Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan,” Nersey said. Newsweek. “Regarding Turkey’s participation in the peace process, Turkey can do its best to stay out of the process because of its biased approach to the conflict.”
He accused Ankara of escalating the dispute more quickly, rather than helping to resolve it.
“As we have seen during this recent war, Turkey is the only country that supports Azerbaijan’s invasion by providing a military arsenal and deploying foreign terrorist fighters in the conflict.” “Turkey’s participation is unacceptable to us, as it seeks to destabilize this delicate region.”
The Turkish Embassy in Washington has expressed support for Azerbaijan in earlier comments. Newsweek.
The Ankara embassy said last month that Turkey was shoulder to shoulder with Azerbaijan in the face of Armenia’s latest aggression. “This is not only because of the cultural and historical ties between our countries, but also because of the need to emphasize the principle of respect for the basic international principle of territorial integrity.”
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Iran has also officially sided with fellow Shia Muslim Azerbaijan in calling for the withdrawal of most Christian Armenian troops from Nagorno-Karabakh. In addition to religious ties, Iran has an ethnic Azeri population that rivals neighboring Azerbaijan, and separatist groups inside Iran have rallied in support of Baku, raising fears of unrest from officials in Tehran.
Iran has also denied Azerbaijan’s allegations that the country facilitated the transfer of weapons from Russia to its ally Armenia, while Azerbaijani officials have repeatedly accused Iran, Russia and the international media of using Syrian-backed rebels in Nagorno-Karabakh. .
Tehran and Moscow have actively supported the government’s efforts to fight opposition forces in Syria through their joint support in Damascus as part of a conflict in which they are already coordinating with Ankara. Now, however, both countries have expressed concern that the rebels could be deployed near their borders.
For Iran, the conflict has already erupted.
There have been numerous reports of stray Azerbaijani drones and Armenian planes falling into Iranian territory, with frustrated Iranian diplomats and military officials warning that retaliatory measures would be taken in response to such incidents.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will not be indifferent in this regard if the firing is repeated,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement on Friday.
On the same day, the Iranian military alliance Colonel Bahman Sadegin raised his country’s concerns in Armenia during a meeting with Levon Avazyan, head of the General Department of Defense Policy of the Armenian Ministry of Defense and head of international cooperation.
The Armenian side blamed Azerbaijani forces for deliberately gathering near the Iranian border and said in a message that “the Artisakh Defense Forces have the right to carry out destructive strikes against Azerbaijani armed forces in the region.”
Abbas Mousavi, Iran’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, also went to discuss the dispute on Azerbaijani television on Saturday. The next day, he insisted that Iran would pursue its own interests before deciding its position on Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Iran’s foreign policy is not determined in Washington, London, Beijing, Baku, Yerevan, Moscow or Ankara, instead we decide on national interests and national security with independence and power in Tehran,” Mousavi tweeted. “The mental and media combat of governments, regimes or” special circles “has no effect on what should or should not be done.”
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Also on Sunday, a decade-long arms embargo imposed on Iran by the United Nations was lifted in accordance with a 2015 nuclear deal signed by Iran and the United States with China, France, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom. Washington has since abandoned the deal and imposed unilateral sanctions on Tehran, while the rest of the parties support the deal.
The U.S., which already sells arms to Azerbaijan, And rejecting Israel’s warnings, UN spokeswoman Alireza Miriusfi recently told the Iranian mission. Newsweek His country was ready to start buying and selling weapons among his “many friends and trading partners”.
He also said that his country “has a strong domestic arms industry to ensure defense requirements against foreign aggression.”
The Iranian military is preparing to demonstrate some of its equipment in a massive air and air defense exercise on Wednesday.
Brigadier General Abbas Azimi, commander of the Iranian Army North-Western Zone Air Defense, told reporters that full security is being established along the country’s northwestern borders by air and land.
On the same day, however, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency reported that another drone had landed near the village of Gara Goch in Khoda Afrin County in Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province. The news was linked to the intensity of the fighting on both sides of the border, and the fact that there was no end to the conflict ahead raised the stakes for Iran.
