TEHRAN -- Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili in a meeting with Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisian here on Monday said that Iran seeks to help provide security in the Caucasus region.

Jalili adverted to Iran’s strategic relations with Caucasian countries especially Armenia and insisted that “Iran spares no effort to reduce the problems of the regional people.”
Armenian energy minister also briefed Iranian security official on the latest developments in the region.
Pointing to Iran’s role in helping to improve security in the Caucasus, Armen Movsesian expressed his thanks for all support that Iran had provided to countries in the Caucasus region, particularly Armenia, in hard times.
The Republic of Armenia is a landlocked mountainous country in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the southern Caucasus. It borders Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan to the south.
The situation has been highly volatile in the region in recent days as Georgian and Russian troops were involved in brief but intense war after Georgia launched an attack on separatists in breakaway province of South Ossetia.
Georgia and Russia agreed to a ceasefire brokered by France last week. Some reports said the Russian troops have not still pulled out of Georgian territory. However, Russia said its military began to withdraw from the conflict zone in Georgia on Monday.
The region has become a scene of fierce competition between the regional power Russia and the United States and the European Union