ANKARA, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Turkish foreign minister said economic sanctions against Iran will not produce any results and that Turkey does not want its region to face a new armed clash regardless of the source of the tension, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported late Wednesday.

    Turkey attaches importance to diplomatic means which will not require those sanctions in tackling the Ian nuclear issue, Ahmet Davutoglu told a press conference.

    The minister said Turkey would be one of the countries most harmed by a sanction against Iran.

    He said the Iran nuclear issue should be solved only by diplomatic means instead of military ones, which is one of Turkey's basic principles on the issue.

    Turkey was against limiting a country's right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, he said.

    "It is an obligation, not only a right, (to make peaceful use of nuclear technology) especially for the countries which do not have natural energy resources," Davutoglu was quoted as saying.

    Meanwhile, countries must pursue nuclear activities within the scope of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and exert every effort to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons, he said.

    Iran and six major powers -- the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany -- will meet on Oct. 1 in Geneva to resume international efforts to settle Iran's nuclear issue after a 2008 session ended without substantive progress.

    The United States and its allies have accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of civilian nuclear program, while Iran has denied the U.S. charges and insisted that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

    The United Nations Security Council has so far levied three rounds of sanctions on Iran.