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Mottaki asks certain members not to further downgrade UNSC

Tehran, June 11, IRNA – Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Friday called on certain UN Security Council members not to further downgrade the Council.

Addressing the 10th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Friday, Mottaki said the UN Security Council took no action to allay major security concerns over Zionist troops’ savage attack on Freedom Flotilla activists and their killing or injury as a result.

Mottaki said the UN Security Council in a behind-the-curtain game passed a resolution against Iran over its peaceful nuclear activities.

He said Iranian nation attaches not the least value to such political ploys.

He added that as a member of the international community, the Islamic Republic of Iran has proved its adherence to international laws and regulations.

The Iranian top diplomat said that while well-defining its stances, Iran has over the past five years given the priority in its measures to cooperation in nuclear field.

Outstanding example of its initiatives was successful holding of the nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran, with the motto of nuclear energy for all, nuclear weapons for none, said Mottaki.

“It substantiates sincere approach and firm belief of the Islamic Republic of Iran in indiscriminated nuclear disarmament, including the nuclear weapons free Middle East. Iran emphasizes legitimate, legal and peaceful use of nuclear sciences as an indisputable right of all the NPT signatories.”

As for the May 17 Iran-Turkey-Brazil Fuel Swap Declaration, Mottaki said Tehran declaration is like a road map. “It is another positive move of the Islamic Republic of Iran in support for global peace and calm, revealing Tehran’s firm determination for engagement and cooperation with other countries. It was good to take the transparent and sincere policy of Iran as a chance and provide it with serious support.”

“Is recent political and unfair sanctions, which lack any legal backing and were approved without global consensus, the answer to the good will and practical measures of the Islamic Republic of Iran?” questioned Mottaki.

Elsewhere in his address, Mottaki said Iran expects the SCO to condemn foreign support for regional terrorism and such criminals as Abdulmalek Rigi.

He said the international body, the SCO, is also expected to condemn the US’ nuclear threat to any of its as well as the UN members./end

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