We will do our best to protect the Azerbaijanis living in Iran

“We will do our best to protect Azerbaijanis living in Iran.”

About it President Ilham Aliyev he said in his speech at the opening of the international conference “Along the Middle Corridor: geopolitics, security and economy” held at ADA University in Baku on November 25.

President Aliyev Iran–Azerbaijan on the border in October-November, first Iran, and then Azerbaijan military pointed out that he had conducted trainings and said that Azerbaijan Iran on the border with military he had to train to show that he was not afraid of them.

“I have worked with three presidents of Iran – Khatami, Ahmadinejad and Rouhani. In all these years, a situation similar to today has not arisen. Never Iran two within a few months at our border military had no training. Never To Azerbaijan “There has never been a statement full of so much hatred and threats,” he said.

Azerbaijan the president then said: “We have always responded and will respond to any anti-Azerbaijani statement and action. For this reason, we had to conduct military exercises on the border with Iran to demonstrate that we are not afraid of them. We of our way of life, Azerbaijan We will do our best to protect the vector of secular development and Azerbaijanis, including Azerbaijanis living in Iran. They are a part of our people.”

Aliyev in the native language of Azerbaijanis living in Iran education brought to the center of attention the importance of

“340, where education is conducted in Russian in Azerbaijan school operates. Besides, in the republic 10 teaching in the school is in Georgian. in Georgia 116 Azerbaijani speakers school there is There are schools in Iran where teaching is conducted in Armenian, but in Azerbaijani school there is no How can this be? If someone says that this is interference in internal affairs, we completely reject it. Azerbaijan foreign policy is as clear as day – we have not interfered in the internal affairs of any state and do not interfere. “We raise the issue of teaching Azerbaijani language in Iranian schools because otherwise, Iranian Azerbaijanis who speak their mother tongue lose the literary component of the language, and the Azerbaijani language remains at the household level,” he said.

Aliyev also said that Azerbaijan Europe He considers the Union an important partner.

“At the moment we European Union We are in the final stages of negotiations on a new agreement with It is more than 90 percent complete. we European Union We did not sign the Association Agreement with Instead, we preferred the format of bilateral cooperation,” he said.

Speaking about the Eastern Partnership, the President of Azerbaijan said that Azerbaijan considers this partnership not a platform for cooperation with the European Union member countries. European Union considers it one of the elements of cooperation with

On November 25, the international conference “Along the Middle Corridor: geopolitics, security and economy” started at ADA University in Baku.

At the conference USABelgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, FranceIsrael, Switzerland, Italy, Georgia, Canada, Egypt, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia and leaders and representatives of Turkey’s leading think tanks are participating.

Security aspects of the Middle Corridor, economic opportunities of the region are discussed at the forum. Especially in this regard, the importance of the Zangezur corridor, the new transport opportunities that the East-West corridor will create, and the expansion and diversification of international cargo transportation are being discussed.

The Iranian side has not yet commented on what the President of Azerbaijan said in his speech.

Tension continues in Iran-Azerbaijan relations. Thus, in October-November, Iran conducted military exercises on the border with Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan conducted military exercises on the border with Iran. Officially, Tehran detained Azerbaijani citizens in connection with the terrorist incident in Shiraz city, and the security agencies of Azerbaijan reported that two groups of Iranian special services were related to subversive activities in Azerbaijan. imprisonment said he did.

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