Araqchi to Put Focus on Israeli Crimes at UN
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said he would concentrate his diplomatic negotiations and efforts at the UN General Assembly on the containment of regional tensions and the Zionist regime’s atrocities, which he said must be confronted by the international community.
Speaking to reporters upon his arrival in New York for participation in the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, the top Iranian diplomat said, “This year's meeting of the United Nations General Assembly will be held at a time when tensions are high in the West Asian region and when Israel is escalating the tensions and its terrorist and criminal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon every day.”
“This has created very dangerous conditions in the region and the Israeli regime is seriously stepping up its efforts to expand the war. Under the circumstances, the most important topic in our meetings on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly and in the meetings to be held at the General Assembly and on its sidelines including those of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, BRICS, ECO, etc. will naturally be the rising tension in the region and the criminal actions of the Zionist regime, which must be confronted by the international community,” he said, the Foreign Ministry’s website reported.
“The Zionist regime is trying to push the region toward a dangerous situation, and this is really a big risk for the entire international community, and it could worsen the tensions in the region,” Araqchi warned.
“The bilateral meetings that the honorable president and I will have at high levels with officials of other countries are going to be balanced meetings. Both meetings with regional leaders and foreign ministers, as well as those in Europe, East Asia, Africa, and the Arab world, have all been arranged in a balanced manner. In addition to bilateral relations, which are always on the agenda of talks, there are other matters including the discussion of regional issues, international crises such as the Ukraine crisis, and the nuclear negotiations and so on,” he explained.
“It is natural that the crimes of the Zionist regime, especially the crimes committed in the last two or three days, will top the agenda of talks,” the Iranian foreign minister noted.
“In my opinion, after a year of war and brutal killing of people in Gaza, the Zionist regime has not achieved any of the goals it had set in order to get out of the quagmire it has trapped itself in, and this regime has become a dangerous entity. And it’s now ready to commit any crime and set the whole region ablaze in order to save itself from the current situation,” he added.
“The crimes that Israel has committed in the past few days, the events that happened in Lebanon, and the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil, a Hezbollah commander, these are the actions of a desperate regime that is caught in a dangerous deadlock and is trying to drag the whole region with itself into the quagmire. Regional countries and the Islamic Republic of Iran have always dealt with these issues with vigilance,” Arqchi emphasized.
“We are monitoring the situation carefully and adjust our policies accordingly,” the minister noted, adding, “The Israeli regime will definitely not achieve its goals of increasing tension and escalating the war, but it will be held accountable for its crimes. Regarding the issues of Lebanon, it is natural that Hezbollah will make its own decisions and will show appropriate reactions.”
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has always sought the policy of confronting the US and Western countries’ policy of unilateralism in general and these states are pursuing their own excesses and continuing the colonial policies of the past in a new form, and we will press ahead with our own policy. We are pursuing multilateralism and examining international issues using multilateral mechanisms along with like-minded countries,” Araqchi explained.
“We will attend the meetings to be held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this year, especially the Summit for Future, which is an initiative that will take place this year, and we will vigorously announce the Islamic Republic of Iran’s stance on international issues, multilateralism and other issues related to environmental development and so on. In international organizations, we have never lost the opportunity to use these platforms to express the strong, reasonable and logical positions of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he concluded.
