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    Emil Lazarian
  • 7 years ago
    • Categories: 2019

Ex-Envoy: Iran Ready to Mediate in Nagorno-Karabakh Dispute

Financial Tribune, Iran
Ex-Envoy: Iran Ready to Mediate in Nagorno-Karabakh Dispute

I ran is prepared to mediate between Armenia and Azerbaijan to help resolve a long-running dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh with full respect for the territorial integrity of the two states, says Tehran’s former diplomat in Baku. 

“If both parties are interested, Iran is ready to intervene with goodwill and respect for the territorial integrity of the two neighboring countries and help settle the issue in a way that would serve their national interests,” Mohsen Pak-Ayeen also told ISNA in a recent interview.

Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous part of Azerbaijan, is run by ethnic Armenians who declared independence from Baku during a conflict that broke out as the Soviet Union crumbled in 1991.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS