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Tehran, Feb 18, IRNA -- Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on Tuesday
called for adopting collective measures by the Persian Gulf states to safeguard the security of the region.
Addressing the inaugural session of a two-day Conference on Persian Gulf Region, Kharrazi said that the regional states should make well calculated and far-sighted decisions about peace and security in the sensitive region of the Persian Gulf to secure their own long-term interests.
He said that security in the Persian Gulf has always been the number one priority of Iranian diplomacy whose detente and confidence building policy with regional states has yielded positive results.
Kharrazi said that the United States is exploiting the situation in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks to establish its superiority by threatening war on Iraq.
He said that US seeks a total change in the region with waging war on Iraq in line with its interventionist program something which caused further concern among Persian Gulf states.
He said that the region has suffered heavy damages from the two subsequent wars in 1980s and 1990-1991 so that another war in the region emanate from US efforts to seek superiority.
Kharrazi said that in the current situation, the United Nations and the Security Council are being subject to the crucial test of handling their own responsibility to help international peace and security by employing every possible diplomatic channels to resolve the current crisis.
He said that Iran has embarked on diplomatic efforts to help safeguard peace and security in the Persian Gulf region.
The foreign minister called for consultations among Islamic, Arab and European states with the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to explore the way out of the current dilemma.
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