Ali Bagheri Kani, who’s in Turkey to attend a unprecedented summit of the D-8 financial alliance of eight growing nations, highlighted the crimes dedicated by the Zionist regime and the significance of the D-8 group in supporting the Palestinian individuals in an article titled “D-8 Organization and Growing Concerns over the Gaza Crisis.” The opinion of the highest Iranian diplomat was printed within the Turkish Milliyet newspaper.
The physique of the article is as follows:
The horrible humanitarian tragedy in Gaza scars everybody with a conscience. A people who has been subjected to every kind of repression by the occupying regime has skilled unprecedented assaults over the previous eight months. During this time, greater than 36,000 individuals have been martyred in Gaza, 82,000 have been injured and tens of 1000’s stay lacking. More than two million civilians have been displaced and left homeless. The occupying regime is committing mass homicide on a large scale beneath the horrified eyes of the worldwide neighborhood and has no hesitation in committing probably the most heinous crimes.
“Unfortunately, the worldwide neighborhood has did not take efficient measures to place an finish to those heinous crimes. The occupation authorities pursue a coverage of collective punishment, which is a sinister and harmful aim: the destruction of society in Gaza. The continuation of the Zionist regime’s crimes has been made potential by the help of Western nations, particularly the United States.”
Over the previous eight months, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been the loudest voice in opposition to the Zionist regime’s bloody acts in opposition to the oppressed individuals of Palestine and has sought to cease this aggression and genocide as quickly as potential. We are conscious of our duties as a member of the worldwide neighborhood, the United Nations and the Islamic world, and have used and can proceed to make use of all alternatives and means to help Gaza.
In this context, we welcome the initiative of the Organization for Economic Cooperation of Developing Countries (D-8) to carry a unprecedented assembly of international ministers and can attend the assembly in Istanbul on the invitation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Mr. Hakan Fidan. This would be the second emergency assembly of the D-8 prior to now eight months. The final Dhaka assembly occurred simply two weeks after the Zionist regime’s assault on Gaza, beneath the initiative of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and resulted within the issuance of a joint assertion of help and solidarity with the Palestinian individuals, calling on the worldwide neighborhood to cease the assaults and help the supply of humanitarian assist to Gaza.
We hope that the Istanbul Conference will assist attain an settlement on the Palestinian trigger and on supporting the oppressed individuals of Gaza. The D-8 member states ought to take sensible and multilateral steps geared toward assuaging the struggling of Gaza’s defenseless individuals. They also needs to severely contemplate how this group can use Islamic multilateral financial cooperation mechanisms to assist cease genocidal assaults and rebuild Gaza.
Priorities embody making use of diplomatic, political, financial and authorized strain to cease Zionist assaults in opposition to civilians; guaranteeing the rapid supply of humanitarian assist to all Gaza residents; opening border crossings; stopping compelled displacement; creating the situations for the return of displaced individuals; rebuilding Gaza after the withdrawal of the occupying forces; and addressing critical violations of worldwide legislation and worldwide humanitarian legislation by the occupying forces.
Above all, it’s obligatory to handle the basis trigger of the present violence: the unlawful occupation and annexation of Palestinian territory by the Zionist regime. The proper of the Palestinian individuals to find out their very own future is being ignored, and subsequently there may be no sustainable peace with out the belief of their rights and the restoration of justice.
The D-8 group, with a inhabitants of over one billion and accounting for roughly 4.5 p.c of the world’s GDP, can play an efficient function on this regard. As an lively D-8 member and chief of joint efforts and actions, the Islamic Republic of Iran will probably be proactively presenting its efforts on the upcoming extraordinary assembly of international ministers in Istanbul.
Undoubtedly, the revitalization of D-8’s capabilities can result in a complete growth of relations and strengthening of ties amongst its member states, together with two main powers, Iran and Turkey, two essential nations deeply and firmly certain collectively by historic and cultural commonalities, and each at present on the forefront of defending the appropriate to a Palestinian statehood.
Ali Bagheri Crab
Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran
MP/Iran