FM : Iran has some proposals on solving Gaza crisis

Jeddah, June 6, IRNA – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran had certain specific proposals to the OIC meeting here on the removal of the Gaza crisis.

He made the remarks while talking to reporters Sunday morning upon arrival in Jeddah airport to take part in the foreign ministerial meeting of the member states of the executive committee of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

Outlining Iran’s efforts to stop the recent Zionist crimes in Gaza, he said Tehran’s constructive proposals to the meeting would help put an end to the crisis in Gaza.

He explained that the present meeting was held following the request of a number of OIC member states after the Zionist crimes against the international humanitarian flotilla comprised of peace activists from 40 world countries which caused the death and wounding of the scores of them.

Mottaki said Iran is taking part in the meeting at the level of foreign minister which indicates the extreme importance Iran attaches to the issue.

He hoped that the meeting reached important conclusions with good practical guarantees.

The Iranian foreign minister further pointed to the three-year-old siege of Gaza by the Zionist regime and hoped all humanitarian organizations worldwide took actions to remove the siege and free the defenseless people entangled in the Gaza Strip./end