Iran’s Parliament Speaker:

Misunderstanding With Baku Corrected

Date: 10 January 2023 - 21:36

News ID: ۱۱۱۱۸۶

TEHRAN – Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Muhammad Baqer Qalibaf has said that a series of misunderstandings in the relations with the Republic of Azerbaijan have been cleared up.
Speaking to reporters after visiting Turkey for the 13th Plenary Session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA), Qalibaf said he has held a meeting with his Azeri counterpart on the sidelines of the conference in Antalya.
He said a series of misunderstandings that had arisen recently in the relations with the Republic of Azerbaijan have been cleared up, as he is scheduled to pay a visit to Baku in future.
In the Monday meeting with speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan Sahiba Gafarova, Qalibaf said Iran will never accept any geopolitical change to borders in the Caucasus region and rejects any intervention in that region by extra-regional countries.
Referring to the importance of Tehran-Baku relations in various political, economic and parliamentary fields, Qalibaf said, “The neighboring country of Azerbaijan has special conditions from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s viewpoint... and the two countries seek to further deepen their relations.”

“We can have good relations at regional and global levels. The closer regional countries get to each other, the better it would be for the region and no extra-regional countries should be allowed to interfere in this regard,” he added, Press TV reported.

Gafarova, for her part, called for closer cooperation between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Islamic Republic of Iran at international level.

“The factors that bring the two countries close together are not solely geography and propinquity at borders, but we are two Muslim countries and many people in Iran speak the Azeri language,” she said.