YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 17, ARMENPRESS. During a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that any change of internationally recognized borders in the region is unacceptable, Mehr news agency reports.

Raisi said that the territorial integrity of regional countries must be preserved.

“The basis of our policy in the region is that the fates of the countries must be determined by themselves and that their national sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected” Raisi told Erdogan in Samarkand on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.