Armenia attends International Conference on Syria held in Tehran

14:17 • 10.08.12



Armenian ambassador to Iran Grigor Arakelyan has participated in the International Conference on Syria held in Tehran, spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Minister Tigran Balayan told Tert.am. Armenia’s proposal, though, voiced over the Syria crisis is not yet publicized.

 

According to Iranian Fars news agency delegates of 30 world countries and international bodies participating in the International Conference on Syria in the Iranian capital issued a final statement at the end of their meeting Thursday evening.

  

Tehran Consultative Meeting on Syria was convened on August 9, 2012. The meeting was headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and attended by ministers and delegates from Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, Benin, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and the United Nations.

 

In their statement the participants expressed serious concern over the continuation of clashes and violation of human rights in Syria, emphasized the necessity of pursuing political solutions based on national dialogue as the only way to resolve the Syrian crisis, expressed support to the legitimate demands of the Syrian people to carry out reforms in order to build democracy and promote all-out political partnership of different parties and opposition groups to exercise their right to run their own country, in a peaceful manner and calm atmosphere and without any foreign intervention. They also emphasized the need to uphold the principles of international law regarding non-intervention in domestic affairs of other countries and the respect of their national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and urging to cease the hostilities by putting an end to any military assistance to armed groups and warning of the dangerous impacts of support for armed groups on regional peace and security.

 

Foreign ministers and envoys of a large number of countries, including Russia, China, Belarus, Mauritania, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Benin, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Algeria, Iraq, Zimbabwe, Oman, Venezuela, Tajikistan, India, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Sudan, Jordan, Tunisia and Palestine as well as the UN envoy to Tehran were present at the conference.
 

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