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Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan: â€œBy helping solve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, we want to fulfill our duty of brotherhoodâ€

25 February 2010 15:18 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Lachin Sultanova, Suleyman Farzaliyev â€“ APA. Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mahammad Bagir Bahrami held a press conference, APA reports. The ambassador said on February 26 he will leave for Iran to attend the seminars of Iranian ambassadors in foreign countries. He will stay there for two weeks. He said after the visit of Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov to Iran a new stage began in the relations of the two countries.

The diplomat said the visit of speaker of Azerbaijani parliament Ogtay Asadov to Iran was very important, he held high-level meetings in Tehran for two days, the third day on his request he met with governor of Tabriz, visited mausoleum of poets, got acquainted with the industrial facilities, drove the tractor made there, that tractor was presented to Azerbaijan.

Asked how Iran would help solve Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the ambassador said Iran wanted to fulfill its duty of brotherhood.
â€œWe want to help solve the conflict. Let the officials of the regional countries meet, discuss, put forward their programs,â€ he said.

Asked whether events on Khojaly genocide would be held in Iran, Bahrami offered his condolences to Azerbaijani people and state in connection with the tragedy.
â€œWe condemn the persons, who caused this tragedy and their actions,â€ he said.
The ambassador said he did not know what events would be held in Iran, but his advisor attended the event in Baku and made a ten-minute speech.