The activities of the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran are suspended/ The consulate general is active.
The Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Iran has suspended its activities. In this connection, “Khalaf Khalaf F”, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan announced that the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Tehran has suspended its activities.
Stating that we have completely suspended the embassy’s diplomatic activities, he added: “Five embassy employees are staying in Tehran to protect the embassy building and property.” “But they won’t have any diplomatic activity,” he explained.
According to this senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Tabriz will continue to operate normally.
In this connection, it has been reported that a plane landed in Baku on Sunday evening with the evacuated personnel of the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Tehran.
Earlier, the Reuters news agency claimed that two days after the shooting incident in the Azerbaijan embassy, this country will evacuate the embassy staff and their family members from Iran on Sunday. Reuters published this claim quoting the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
On the morning of Friday, the 7th of Bahman, an armed person entered the building of the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan and shot at the embassy staff, as a result of which one person was killed and two others were injured.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country, Nasser Kanani, while strongly condemning this armed act and expressing his condolences and deep sympathy to the family of this embassy member, the government and the people of Azerbaijan, said: “The police and security forces immediately intervened and arrested the assailant and he is under interrogation.” contract.
