IRAN FOR PEACEFUL END OF KARABAGH DISPUTE, KHATAMI SAYS
ArmenPress
Sept 9 2004
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS: Meeting with students and professors
of Yerevan State University Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said
Iran underscores elimination of tension in the region, “as all nations
need to develop which can be achieved only in peaceful conditions.”
In response to a question about Iran’s position on the Nagorno Karabagh
conflict he said disagreements are natural, “but Iran respects the
territorial integrity and sovereignty of all nations and has been
making efforts to help end the Karabagh conflict in a peaceful way
so that the region’s countries could help each other’s development
without exhausting their resources and potential in conflicts.”
Khatami said Iran is for political solutions to all disputable
questions through negotiations. “We have a special respect for our
neighbor and friend Armenia and if the sides to the conflict decide
to make use of Iran’s possibilities and influence we are ready to
meet them halfway,” he said.
Mohammad Khatami also visited today the Genocide Memorial to
commemorate the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman
Turkey and put flowers at the Memorial. He was accompanied by the
chief of Armenian presidential staff Artashes Tumanian, Yerevan mayor
Yervand Zakharian, Armenian deputy foreign minister Ruben Shugarian,
other high-rank officials.
The museum employees presented Khatami with a research work on 1915
Armenian Genocide, a map of Armenia, Epos of David of Sasun and a
photography album of Mount Ararat.