BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 6. An agreement on the
return of Azerbaijani diplomats to Iran soon was reached, Iranian
Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian said, Trend reports citing the
Iranian Foreign Ministry.
The head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry noted that the results
of the trial of the man who killed an employee of the Azerbaijani
embassy were discussed during the meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign
Minister Jeyhun Bayramov in Jeddah.
“At a meeting with my Azerbaijani colleague, we discussed the
results of the trial of the man who killed an employee of the
Azerbaijani embassy in Iran. We have reached an agreement to take
measures to send a diplomatic delegation of the Republic of
Azerbaijan to Iran in the near future,” the minister said.
The work of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Iran was suspended after
an armed attack on January 27 last year, as a result of which the
head of the Security Service was killed and two more employees of
the diplomatic mission were injured.
In February of this year, the terrorist who attacked the
Azerbaijani embassy was sentenced to death.
