The Azerbaijani authorities do not find it wrong with the decision to expel four Iranian diplomats from the embassy in Baku, transmits TASS. Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizadeh said that Iran’s negative reaction to the relevant step seemed biased.
Statement by Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanani [Чафи] Hacizade is biased and emotional regarding the denunciation of four employees of the Iranian Embassy in Azerbaijan as persona non grata for their activities that do not comply with diplomatic status and violate the 1961 Vienna Convention.”
According to the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, illegal activities on the territory of the country and the expulsion of diplomats in any way do not violate the principles of good neighborliness. He also added that Baku always values relations with neighbors on the basis of reciprocity and is not interested in worsening interaction.
“Adequate measures taken by the Azerbaijani side have always been a response to provocative and provocative steps,” Hajizade said.
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs judicial Declaring its diplomats persona non grata in Baku is not constructive.