Tehran: Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan on Sunday inked a declaration to promote cooperation among them.
The statement was signed by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali- Akbar Salehi and his Turkish and Azerbaijani counterparts Ahmet Davutoglu and Elmar Mammadyarov at the end of their first trilateral meeting in Iran’s northwestern city of Orumiyeh.
The statement underlined the “excellent relations” among the three countries and described their common culture and civilization as a good basis for the further reinvigoration of their ties, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
The three ministers called in the statement for the regional cooperation and respecting countries’ territorial integrity and national borders, which, it said, will have positive effects on the peaceful resolution of regional conflicts, the news agency said.
The three top diplomats also stressed the importance of justice in regulating international relations and full respect for all countries’ rights of access to development, science and technology, including civilian nuclear technology within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) without any discrimination, said Fars.
The three sides also agreed to establish trilateral economic commission to promote economic cooperation, local ISNA news agency reported.
According to ISNA, they also agreed on cooperation among the three countries’ intelligence and security agencies in fighting terrorism, organized crimes, drugs trafficking and human and weapons smuggling,
At the opening ceremony of the first trilateral meeting, Salehi said the trilateral cooperation among Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan can “serve peace and stability” in the region, Press TV reported Sunday.
“Trilateral cooperation among Iran, Azerbaijan and Turkey is not only in the interest of the three countries, but also in the interest of the entire region,” Salehi was quoted as saying.
The meeting “can lay the proper foundation for expanding cooperation with other regional countries and serve peace and stability in the region,” Salehi said, adding “all the three countries stress the necessity of resolving regional disputes in a peaceful and just manner, and believe that expanding relations and economic cooperation in the region could help establish and guarantee peace and stability.”
Before the three-way meeting, Turkey and Iran opened on Saturday a new border crossing between Turkey’s eastern province of Van and Iran’s West Azerbaijan province to cement bilateral ties, Turkish media reported.
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