Iran, Turkey "firm in fight" against terrorism - speakerMarch 6, 2018 - 18:16 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday, March 5 that Iran and Turkey "proved their firmness in the fight against terrorism", IRNA reports. He made the remarks in a meeting with Head of Turkey's parliament foreign relations commission Malkane Buzker and the accompanying delegation. Larijani said that expansion of relations between the two parliaments may broaden mutual cooperation in other areas, adding that one of the issues, which needs wide cooperation is fighting terrorism, which because of supports of a number of countries for terrorism the heinous phenomenon has not ended yet, unfortunately. Buzker said that good cooperation took place between Iran, Turkey and Russia to settle regional problems and had good achievements as well. Buzker pointed to past week meeting between Turkey, Azerbaijan Republic and Georgia and said that in the meeting all participants underlined necessity of Iran's presence in such meetings. Concerning presence of Turkey's forces in Afrin, the Turk parliamentarian said his country is not "eyeing on territory of its neighbors and expressed the hope that Syria like Iraq achieves peace and tranquility soon." Buzker and accompanying delegation also met with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday afternoon and discussed regional issues with him. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |