By NNN-IRNA
Baku : Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov here Wednesday denied allegations about tension between Iran and Azerbaijan over the detention of an Azeri dissident group.
Mammadyarov made the remark in an interview with a private Azeri TV, adding that Azerbaijan had sent a report to Iran’s Ambassador to Baku Naser Hamidi-Zare in this respect.
The Azeri government called on the ambassador to convey the report to Tehran, he said, adding that such demands are not considered as diplomatic tensions between the two neighbouring countries, he noted.
Azerbaijan’s National Security Ministry claimed in a statement that a 15-man Azeri group had cooperated with Iran’s intelligence services. However, Iranian officials denied any link with the group.