Interfax, Russia
Dec 30 2012

Azerbaijan won’t allow using its territory for action against Iran – minister

BAKU. Dec 30

Azerbaijan will not allow using its territory for any actions against
Iran, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said in reply to a
question from Interfax on Sunday.

“A number of foreign media outlets have regularly issued groundless
and untrue reports that Azerbaijan’s territory would be used for
operations against Iran,” Mammadyarov said.

The Foreign Ministry and other Azeri agencies have already denied
these reports several times, he noted.

“We have said repeatedly that Azerbaijan will not allow using its
territory against Iran. Azerbaijan is an independent and peaceful
country defending its interests, which pursues its foreign policy
based on mutual trust and respect for all the neighboring countries
except Armenia,” Mammadyarov said.

Azerbaijan “does not want the emergence of new hotbeds of conflict in
the region and supports a peaceful resolution of the existing
misunderstandings through negotiations,” he said.

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