Iran Press/ America: The Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi, on Monday stressed that the protection of children, especially girls, in armed conflicts is a fundamental, moral and humanitarian principle.
Furthermore, he strongly criticized the non-inclusion of the name of the Israeli regime and the aggressor Saudi coalition in the blacklist of child rights violators.
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Majid Takht Ravanchi at the UN Security Council meeting on 'Children and Armed Conflict' criticized the silence of the UN and the Secretary-General in the face of the crimes of the Israeli regime and the Saudi aggressor coalition in Yemen and said: "It is worrying that the Israeli regime's military has never been blacklisted in reports about the Secretary-General as a child rights violator and that the name of the Saudi aggressor coalition has been removed from the top of the list."
Takht Ravanchi called for the protection of children in armed conflicts and said: "Protecting children in armed conflicts, primarily requires ending the current conflict and preventing it from re-igniting new conflicts, as well as ensuring the full and effective implementation of international humanitarian law by the parties involved."
The Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations also noted the negligence of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in addressing the implications of unilateral sanctions on the protection of children in conflict situations in his recent report on children and armed conflict.
"The protection of children in armed conflict is the protection of future societies, and everyone should do everything in their power to protect children from the ravages of war and conflict," he concluded.
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