FM urges NAM to support Iran's membership at Security Council

27 July 2008

Tehran-Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Sunday called on the NAM member states to support Iran's non-permanent membership at the United Nations Security Council.

He made the remarks during the 15th expert meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement which began this morning.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has not yielded to pressures, he said urging all freedom-lovers and the friendly countries to support the Iranian nation to that end.

Elsewhere in his speech, Mottaki said that Tehran considers the Non-Aligned Movement as the international movement advocating freedom, peace, justice, independence, progress and refraining from war, aggression, and unilateralism.

The NAM states are faced with big challenges in the areas of peace, security, economic development, social progress, and rule of law, he said, adding that such challenges are in need of international unity and solidarity and support for the NAM aspirations.

Over the past several years during which violence resulting from occupation of Iraq and Palestine has reached its climax and when unilateralism adopted by certain big powers has faced the international community with serious crisis, focus on the NAM aspirations is needed more than any other time, the foreign minister added.

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