Turkey, Iran and Azerbaijan pledged closer co-operation Thursday in efforts to resolve regional conflicts and combat terrorism and organized crime, a joint statement said.
Turkey
,
Iran
and
Azerbaijan
pledged closer co-operation Thursday in efforts to resolve regional conflicts
and combat terrorism and organized crime, a joint statement said.
The statement was issued after the three countries' foreign ministers--Ahmet
Davutoglu of
Turkey
, Ali
Akbar Salehi of
Iran
and
Elmar Mammadyarov of
Azerbaijan
--met
on the sidelines of a regional economic co-operation summit in
Istanbul
.
The ministers stressed the need "to achieve peaceful resolution of the
unresolved conflicts in the region, based on the principle of territorial
integrity," it said.
A major territorial dispute in the region is
Azerbaijan
's
conflict with
Armenia
over
Nagorny-Karabakh, an enclave that Armenian separatists, backed by
Yerevan
,
seized from
Baku
in a
war following the collapse of the
Soviet Union
.
"The ministers have agreed to hold regular trilateral meetings," the
statement said, adding that the next meeting would be in
Iran
.
Turkey
is a
traditional ally of
Azerbaijan
.
Recently it has developed close ties also with
Iran
,
making active efforts to resolve tensions over
Tehran
's
nuclear program.
Turkey
has
no diplomatic relations with
Armenia
,
whose position that Armenians were the victim of genocide under the
Ottoman
Empire
have long poisoned ties.
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