TEHRAN Tehran has invited the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) require disarmament, hailing it as a significant step towards ending violence and increasing regional security.
The Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes any process that leads to the cessation of terrorism and the conditioning of security in our next-door neighbor Turkey, and hopes this advancement will have positive results at the regional level, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baqaei said in a declaration on Friday.PKK leader Abdullah calan advised all groups to set arms and proposed the PKKs dissolution.
I am making a call for the putting down of arms and I handle the historical responsibility for this call, he wrote in a letter read out by Kurdish politicians in Istanbul on Thursday.
All groups should put down their arms and the PKK need to liquify itself.