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UNSC should avoid double standards in fight against terrorism: Iran
Addressing the 63rd Annual Session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO) on Preventing and Countering Terrorism on Wednesday, Reza Najafi said that the UN should take appropriate steps in the fight against terrorism.
The Iranian official referred to the unilateral approaches adopted by some countries, including the United States, saying that such approaches have endangered the international peace and security.
He also said that a recent move taken by Canada to list Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps as a “terrorist” organization violates Iran’s national sovereignty. Najafi underlined that Iran will decisively respond to the Canada’s violation of its national security.
Najafi said terrorist groups act as the tools of some trans-regional actors to achieve their goals. He also pointed to the regional cooperation on the fight against terrorism, calling for the governments not to use their soil as a safe haven for terrorists.
He said that the dispatch of terrorists to the Middle East region is a threat to the peace, stability and security of all countries in the region. The Iranian official also warned about the relocation of terrorists in the region following the defeat of Daesh in Syria and Iraq.
Najafi also described the designation of resistance groups in the Middle East region, including in the occupied Palestine, as “terrorists” by the Western governments as one of their destructive moves in the region.
“In fact, the repression of people under occupation (Palestinians) should be considered as a terrorist act, and so the Zionist regime is a clear example of a terrorist regime.”
Iran’s capital, Tehran, is hosting the two-day meeting of AALCO on Preventing and Countering Terrorism.
AALCO, originally known as the Asian Legal Consultative Committee (ALCC), is an inter-governmental organization that was founded on 15 November 1956 with seven Asian states as its first members.
AALCO has presently 48 members comprising of the major states from Asia and Africa. Two-thirds of the world’s population lives in AALCO member states.
Back in 2014, Iran held an AALCO meeting where such topics as maritime laws, rights of refugees and migrants, economic sanctions, latest developments in Palestine, as well as international trade laws and sustainable development were discussed.