Yerevan, September 10, ArmenPress - Meeting with students and professors of Yerevan State University Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said Iran underscores elimination of tension in the region, "as all nations need to develop which can be achieved only in peaceful conditions."

In response to a question about Iran's position on the Nagorno Karabagh conflict he said disagreements are natural, "but Iran respects the territorial integrity and sovereignty of all nations and has been making efforts to help end the Karabagh conflict in a peaceful way so that the region's countries could help each other's development without exhausting their resources and potential in conflicts."

Khatami said Iran is for political solutions to all disputable questions through negotiations. "We have a special respect for our neighbor and friend Armenia and if the sides to the conflict decide to make use of Iran's possibilities and influence we are ready to meet them halfway," he said.

Mohammad Khatami also visited today the Genocide Memorial to commemorate the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Turkey and put flowers at the Memorial. He was accompanied by the chief of Armenian presidential staff Artashes Tumanian, Yerevan mayor Yervand Zakharian, Armenian deputy foreign minister Ruben Shugarian, and other high-rank officials.

The museum employees presented Khatami with a research work on 1915 Armenian Genocide, a map of Armenia, Epos of David of Sasun and a photography album of Mount Ararat.