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Mottaki unveils Iranian initiatives to help resolve regional issues
Manama, Dec 5, IRNA -- Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Manama on Saturday unveiled Iranian initiatives to help resolve the regional issues.
Talking in a panel discussion during the Manama Dialogue confab, he said the presence of alien forces in the region and their performance were the main security concern of the regional countries.
Referring to occupation of Afghanistan by American forces, he questioned the outcome of such a presence and, noting that over one million people have been killed in the country in the past decade and the number of terrorists has multiplied.
Mottaki said that foreign countries which claim they have concern about the security in the region should review their own performances and consult the regional countries to find a way out of the current security crisis.
On Lebanon, Mottaki said that while certain countries were busy issuing commands and guidelines for Lebanon, Iran sat down with regional countries in Doha to discuss the situation the outcome of which was the settlement of the three major issues of the presidential and parliament elections and formation of the new Lebanese government.
Mottaki recommended foreign countries not to complicate the Lebanese issues, adding that Iran prepared better initiatives to the regional issues.
Responding to a question by one of the panelists who asked “when is Iran going to produce nuclear bomb”, he said Iran believed that the time of nuclear bomb was already over and that the countries which suspected certain countries of moving towards producing nuclear bomb should open their eyes to realities and see the nuclear bombs already present in the region like hundreds of nuclear warheads which are stockpiled in the occupied Palestine and the west is insensitive towards them.
He advised the owners of nuclear arms to join those who advocate the motto of 'nuclear energy for all, nuclear arms for none.’
Asked to comment on the recent visit of the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to Iran, he said the visit completed the circle of mutual and regional cooperation.
He described the visit as constructive which included serious topics and said the Lebanese premier will visit Iran again in a few months to make parts of agreements operational.
Mottaki, heading a delegation, left here for Manama, Bahrain, on Friday to attend a major security conference, the Manama Dialogue.
More than 600 delegates representing political and business interests from around the world are attending the three-day forum, which begins with a series of bilateral meetings.
They include prime ministers, foreign ministers, defense ministers, national security advisers and military and intelligence chiefs from more than 25 countries.
A major security operation surrounds the three-day conference, which is organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and will tackle some of the key challenges facing the region – including the future of Yemen, Iraq, military co-operation and the role of foreign powers in regional conflicts./end
Talking in a panel discussion during the Manama Dialogue confab, he said the presence of alien forces in the region and their performance were the main security concern of the regional countries.
Referring to occupation of Afghanistan by American forces, he questioned the outcome of such a presence and, noting that over one million people have been killed in the country in the past decade and the number of terrorists has multiplied.
Mottaki said that foreign countries which claim they have concern about the security in the region should review their own performances and consult the regional countries to find a way out of the current security crisis.
On Lebanon, Mottaki said that while certain countries were busy issuing commands and guidelines for Lebanon, Iran sat down with regional countries in Doha to discuss the situation the outcome of which was the settlement of the three major issues of the presidential and parliament elections and formation of the new Lebanese government.
Mottaki recommended foreign countries not to complicate the Lebanese issues, adding that Iran prepared better initiatives to the regional issues.
Responding to a question by one of the panelists who asked “when is Iran going to produce nuclear bomb”, he said Iran believed that the time of nuclear bomb was already over and that the countries which suspected certain countries of moving towards producing nuclear bomb should open their eyes to realities and see the nuclear bombs already present in the region like hundreds of nuclear warheads which are stockpiled in the occupied Palestine and the west is insensitive towards them.
He advised the owners of nuclear arms to join those who advocate the motto of 'nuclear energy for all, nuclear arms for none.’
Asked to comment on the recent visit of the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to Iran, he said the visit completed the circle of mutual and regional cooperation.
He described the visit as constructive which included serious topics and said the Lebanese premier will visit Iran again in a few months to make parts of agreements operational.
Mottaki, heading a delegation, left here for Manama, Bahrain, on Friday to attend a major security conference, the Manama Dialogue.
More than 600 delegates representing political and business interests from around the world are attending the three-day forum, which begins with a series of bilateral meetings.
They include prime ministers, foreign ministers, defense ministers, national security advisers and military and intelligence chiefs from more than 25 countries.
A major security operation surrounds the three-day conference, which is organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and will tackle some of the key challenges facing the region – including the future of Yemen, Iraq, military co-operation and the role of foreign powers in regional conflicts./end
