YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 25, NOYAN TAPAN. The Secretary of Armenian National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan said here on Sunday that Armenia supports Iran's "civilian nuclear program," Iranian Students news agency (ISNA) reported. Baghdasaryan made his remarks during his visit with his Iranian counterpart Saeed Jalili. The United States, Israel and their Western allies accuse Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons, but Iran insists that its nuclear program is only for generating electricity. He urged the expansion of ties between Iran and Armenia on a multiple grounds of "economic, diplomatic, defense and security relations." Meanwhile, Baghdasaryan also called on Iran to actively cooperate in Caucasus security, the report said. Caucasus suffers the two unsettled conflicts, one is between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the other is Russia and Georgia. Iran has made several attempts to have a role in the region's hot issue. "Iran's basic policy seeks practical support for promoting regional peace and preventing crisis," Jalili said, adding that "cross-regional forces' interference only creates crisis and regional issues need to be settled only by regional countries," according to ISNA.

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