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Mottaki: A new chapter of broader Iran-India relations ahead
IRI Foreign Minister said after meetings with Indian prime minister and high ranking officials here Monday a new chapter in Tehran-New Delhi is opened and Iran welcomes this development.
Manouchehr Mottaki who was speaking with IRNA reporter, said, “Based on the determination I sensed from the words uttered by Mr. prime minister, Mr. president, and Mr. foreign minister of India they are quite determined for comprehensive expansion of ties, and I believe a new chapter in Iran-New Delhi relations is about to be opened, which is off course welcomed by us.”
Referring to the separate negotiations he has had with Indian officials, he reiterated, “Usually in such opportunities issues are discussed, a part of which are directly related to bilateral ties, and they are partly about the developments in shared region, particularly when the region is faced with insecurity, terrorism and extremism, more time is allocated to such talks”
The foreign minister pointed out that the realm of discussions was very broad, including the bilateral, the regional and the international issues and developments, adding, “In our discussions we were agreed on the necessity of the two countries’ high level officials’ talks.”
He added, “India’s Prime Minister Mr. Sing, announced that he is scheduled to visit Tehran in near future and before that I had invited the Indian foreign minister to visit Tehran.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Mottaki referred to his talks with the Indian foreign minister, who is meanwhile the head of the Indian joint economic commission with Iran. He reiterated, “Deputies of some ministers and executive organs are going to accompany him in this visit.”
He further reiterated, “In our talks with the Indian Foreign Minister Mr. Krishna and his accompanying delegation we managed to discuss very broad fields on relations.”
Mottaki said, “Regarding the Peace Pipeline, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Prime Minister Krishna announced their country’s will to put it on the agenda, and we, too, welcomed the idea.”
He added, “We hope the Indians would after finalizing their studies and elimination of their probable concerns join the bilateral agreement we have signed with Pakistan on construction of the gas pipeline.”
Mottaki reiterated, “Whenever India would make its final decision, the path is open for its joining the pipeline.”
He said, “among the regional issues, we discussed the Afghanistan issue and the unrests in Pakistan and I pointed out that Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq in Iran’s neighborhood are entangled with crises, insecurity, extremism, and terrorism.”
Mottaki added, “Those countries’ most secure borders are those with Iran. In fact Iran, despite the crises in its neighborhood, is a kind of stronghold of peace and stability in the region.”
The Iranian FM said, “We also spoke about Palestine, stressing the need for materializing the Palestinians’ rights.”
He added, “Iran believes based on the Goldstone Report, the UN Security Council and the international communities must pursue the issue of putting to trial the heads of the Zionist regime and the criminals involved in the crimes committed against the Palestinians.”
Pointing out that he had a great opportunity for reviewing the the entire developments with the Indian officials, he said, “We discussed the UN and the need for restructuring its organs, too.”
Mottaki added, “With the passage of each day the status, importance, and role playing of the General Assembly, that is the most democratic UN organ, gets further decreased, while the decision making power and the status of the Security Council that is the place for a small number of countries, and the decision makers there, too, are even less than that, keeps increasing.
“This imbalance need to be balanced and the existing unjust system since the structure laid 60 years ago by the winners of the World War is quite inefficient today. Therefore, restructuring the UN status should be seriously considered by the countries.”
He said, “We talked about Asia and the need for strengthening conversion of ideas there, and that there are maximum elements and indexes in favor of conversion among the huge Asian family, such as the historic, the cultural and the civilizational factors, and even the fact that Asia has been the cradle for the entire great religions of the world.”
Mottaki said that in comparison with the other continents, such as Europe, Africa and even Latin America, that have managed to establish the European Union, the African Union, the European Parliament, the African Parliament, and the Latin American unions, in Asia we merely have separate islands.
He added, “While we have the ASEAN, the ECO, the PGCC, the SARC, the Shanghai Treaty, and the G8, all of them serve as separate islands, so how could we have a united Asia?” He added, “That issue, too, was one of the topics of our discussions with the Indian officials.”
The Iranian foreign minister reiterated, “Iran-India relations would in not so remote future be witness to an evolutionary and dynamic perspective and I hope the people of the two countries and the entire activists in the field of bilateral relations would be benefited from it.
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Manouchehr Mottaki who was speaking with IRNA reporter, said, “Based on the determination I sensed from the words uttered by Mr. prime minister, Mr. president, and Mr. foreign minister of India they are quite determined for comprehensive expansion of ties, and I believe a new chapter in Iran-New Delhi relations is about to be opened, which is off course welcomed by us.”
Referring to the separate negotiations he has had with Indian officials, he reiterated, “Usually in such opportunities issues are discussed, a part of which are directly related to bilateral ties, and they are partly about the developments in shared region, particularly when the region is faced with insecurity, terrorism and extremism, more time is allocated to such talks”
The foreign minister pointed out that the realm of discussions was very broad, including the bilateral, the regional and the international issues and developments, adding, “In our discussions we were agreed on the necessity of the two countries’ high level officials’ talks.”
He added, “India’s Prime Minister Mr. Sing, announced that he is scheduled to visit Tehran in near future and before that I had invited the Indian foreign minister to visit Tehran.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Mottaki referred to his talks with the Indian foreign minister, who is meanwhile the head of the Indian joint economic commission with Iran. He reiterated, “Deputies of some ministers and executive organs are going to accompany him in this visit.”
He further reiterated, “In our talks with the Indian Foreign Minister Mr. Krishna and his accompanying delegation we managed to discuss very broad fields on relations.”
Mottaki said, “Regarding the Peace Pipeline, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Prime Minister Krishna announced their country’s will to put it on the agenda, and we, too, welcomed the idea.”
He added, “We hope the Indians would after finalizing their studies and elimination of their probable concerns join the bilateral agreement we have signed with Pakistan on construction of the gas pipeline.”
Mottaki reiterated, “Whenever India would make its final decision, the path is open for its joining the pipeline.”
He said, “among the regional issues, we discussed the Afghanistan issue and the unrests in Pakistan and I pointed out that Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq in Iran’s neighborhood are entangled with crises, insecurity, extremism, and terrorism.”
Mottaki added, “Those countries’ most secure borders are those with Iran. In fact Iran, despite the crises in its neighborhood, is a kind of stronghold of peace and stability in the region.”
The Iranian FM said, “We also spoke about Palestine, stressing the need for materializing the Palestinians’ rights.”
He added, “Iran believes based on the Goldstone Report, the UN Security Council and the international communities must pursue the issue of putting to trial the heads of the Zionist regime and the criminals involved in the crimes committed against the Palestinians.”
Pointing out that he had a great opportunity for reviewing the the entire developments with the Indian officials, he said, “We discussed the UN and the need for restructuring its organs, too.”
Mottaki added, “With the passage of each day the status, importance, and role playing of the General Assembly, that is the most democratic UN organ, gets further decreased, while the decision making power and the status of the Security Council that is the place for a small number of countries, and the decision makers there, too, are even less than that, keeps increasing.
“This imbalance need to be balanced and the existing unjust system since the structure laid 60 years ago by the winners of the World War is quite inefficient today. Therefore, restructuring the UN status should be seriously considered by the countries.”
He said, “We talked about Asia and the need for strengthening conversion of ideas there, and that there are maximum elements and indexes in favor of conversion among the huge Asian family, such as the historic, the cultural and the civilizational factors, and even the fact that Asia has been the cradle for the entire great religions of the world.”
Mottaki said that in comparison with the other continents, such as Europe, Africa and even Latin America, that have managed to establish the European Union, the African Union, the European Parliament, the African Parliament, and the Latin American unions, in Asia we merely have separate islands.
He added, “While we have the ASEAN, the ECO, the PGCC, the SARC, the Shanghai Treaty, and the G8, all of them serve as separate islands, so how could we have a united Asia?” He added, “That issue, too, was one of the topics of our discussions with the Indian officials.”
The Iranian foreign minister reiterated, “Iran-India relations would in not so remote future be witness to an evolutionary and dynamic perspective and I hope the people of the two countries and the entire activists in the field of bilateral relations would be benefited from it.
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