NAM rejects use of force against states on pretext of fighting terrorism
Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi said the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) rejects the use of force by any country against any NAM member state under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
Ershadi made the remarks in a statement on Monday on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement before the Sixth Committee of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on “Measures to eliminate international terrorism”, IRNA reported. She said that the NAM unequivocally rejects terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, as well as all acts, methods and practices of terrorism.
“We would like to stress that terrorism should not be equated with the legitimate struggle of peoples under colonial or alien domination and foreign occupation, for self-determination and national liberation. The brutalization of peoples remaining under foreign occupation should continue to be denounced as the gravest form of terrorism, and the use of state power for the suppression and violence against peoples struggling against foreign occupation in exercising their inalienable right to self-determination should continue to be condemned,” she said.
Ershadi said that terrorism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group, and these attributions should not be used to justify terrorism or counter-terrorism measures.