Azerbaijan Accuses Iran Of Interfering In Its Affairs

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By Asbarez Staff on Jun 5th, 2009 and filed under Azerbaijan,
International, News.

BAKU – Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov says Iran’s
latest statements about a planned visit to Baku by Israeli President
Shimon Peres are regrettable and should not have come from Iran’s
military forces.

Mammadyarov said on June 3 that Azerbaijan `does not interfere in
other countries’ foreign affairs and will not allow other countries to
do so.’ He added that `Azerbaijan pursues a foreign policy consistent
with its national interests.’

Peres is expected in Baku at the end of June or early July. Hasan
Furuzabadi, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, recently said
that Peres’s visit would create problems between Iran and Azerbaijan.

Mammadyarov said Baku does not comment on the visits to Iran by
high-ranking Armenian officials.

Ali Hasanov, the head of the presidential administration’s
socio-political department, reiterated on June 5 that Iran has no
right to meddle in Azerbaijan’s internal affairs, particularly in
light of Tehran’s relations with Armenia.