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Oct 23 (Reuters) - Iran hosted talks between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday, saying they offered an opportunity to bring peace to the South Caucasus after Baku's forces last month recaptured the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The war in South Caucasus has ended, and it is time for peace and cooperation," Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said in a televised statement.

That was an implicit reference to the United States and the European Union, whose involvement in the search for a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan has particularly annoyed Russia.

Russia regards itself as the security guarantor between Azerbaijan and Armenia - both former Soviet republics - but the demands and distractions of its war in Ukraine have led to a weakening of its influence in the South Caucasus.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, in a statement posted on the X social media platform, said Ankara welcomed Monday's talks in Tehran and hoped they would "give impetus to normalisation and peace processes".

Christian Armenia and Muslim Azerbaijan have fought two wars in the past three decades and have so far failed to seal a peace deal despite long-running efforts by the United States, EU and Russia.

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