(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 1. Documents
containing calls for international condemnation of the terror
attack against the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the
Islamic Republic of Iran, the identification and prompt punishment
of the organizers and perpetrators of the terror act, as well as
for the fulfillment of obligations arising from the Vienna
Convention on diplomatic Relations, were submitted on Jan. 27 to
relevant international organizations and platforms for adoption,
trend reports citing
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
It should be noted that, since the terror attack was committed
and until now, the armed attack against the Embassy of Azerbaijan
has been condemned by about 100 countries and the secretariats of a
number of international organizations, and the necessity of
punishing the perpetrators of this act has been emphasized in the
statements.
Iran has tried to prevent the terror attack from being widely
exposed at the international level in the international
organizations which it is a member of and in which decisions are
consensus-based. In this regard, Iran objected to the draft
communiqués and statements submitted by Azerbaijan to the
Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and to the
Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia
(CICA) immediately after the attack.
In addition, Iran has appealed to numerous countries for the
support of its position in the aforementioned organizations, but
support to Iran's position was given only by Syria and India among
the 120 countries in the Non-Aligned Movement. The main claim
voiced by these countries in opposition of the adoption of the
aforementioned documents was that terror attacks in individual
countries were not condemned in the Non-Aligned Movement before and
bilateral issues between these countries were not brought to
international platforms such as the Non-Aligned Movement.
However, the Non-Aligned Movement has, in many cases, adopted a
number of documents condemning the terror attacks that have
occurred in its member states and emphasizing the protection of
diplomatic missions.
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry has condemned this provocative
step of Iran, saying it must comply with its international
obligations.
'Azerbaijan will use all relevant international platforms to
widely condemn the terror act against its Embassy and punish the
perpetrators of the said act,' said the ministry.
An armed attack took place at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Iran
on January 27, 2023, at about 8:30 (GMT+4). The gunman turned out
to be a man in his 50's, who drove up to the administrative
building, armed with a Kalashnikov automatic rifle.
Earlier reports from the Chief of Tehran police said there were
two children in the car with the gunman, the security camera footage released later proved the
man was alone. He entered the building after briefly waving hand to
the Iranian security guard outside. No attempts were made to detain
the gunman, as he freely entered the embassy. The man managed to
kill head of the security service and wounding two embassy guards.
The shooter was eventually detained.
Following the deadly assault, Azerbaijan evacuated its officials
from the embassy, including those who suffered as a result of the
attack and completely suspended the work of the embassy in
Tehran.