Armenia and Azerbaijan are friendly countries for Iran, and Tehran hopes to be witness of a stable peace in the region, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has announced at a news conference after a meeting with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan in Yerevan.
As the Iranian president noted, the conflict must be settled by peaceful means only.
▼ читать продолжение новости ▼In turn, the Armenian president informed that he briefed Rouhani on the efforts taken by Armenia and OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to secure progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.
“We highly appreciate Iran’s position on the purely peaceful settlement of the Karabakh issue. We have confirmed that the Nagorno-Karabakh problem cannot be solved by an armed way. We also stressed inadmissibility of any steps aimed at deteriorating the situation or disseminating the destabilization in the region,” Sargsyan said.