Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday, Anadolu reports.
Erdogan, who is in the Chinese city of Tianjin to attend the 25th Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), continues his contacts on the sidelines of the summit.
The meeting between President Erdogan and President Pezeshkian took place at the Meijiang Convention Center.
Pezeshkian referred to the US-brokered agreement that Armenia and Azerbaijan signed last month to resolve their long-standing territorial dispute, saying that Iran backs the peace deal, IRNA reports.
“We support the agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a means of consolidating peace and stability. At the same time, we oppose any presence of external forces in the Caucasus region,” he noted.
Elsewhere in his remarks, President Pezeshkian said that Iran is ready to negotiate with the United States on the basis of the recognition of Iran’s nuclear rights and reaching a win-win solution.
As for the “snapback mechanism,” which Britian, Germany, and France – all of them members of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal – triggered last week to restore UN sanctions on Iran, Pezeshkian said that the trio are not legitimate to activate the mechanism, because they have not fulfilled their commitments.
Erdogan, on his part, said that activating the mechanism is totally unconstructive, and emphasized Iran’s right to have peaceful nuclear activities.
