Iran Press/ America: Iran’s acting foreign minister met with the President of the United Nations General Assembly in New York to discuss the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip, which is facing a severe Israeli military offensive.
The meeting between Ali Bagheri Kani and Dennis Francis took place on Monday. This occurred a few hours after the Iranian top diplomat arrived in the city to attend two UN Security Council sessions. Iran's Acting Foreign Minister called for stronger efforts to stop the Israeli regime’s attacks and genocidal crimes against the people of Gaza.
He appreciated the constructive efforts that had been taken by the Assembly since the onset of the war towards putting an end to the genocide, including the passage of relevant resolutions.
Concomitantly with the war, the regime has been enforcing a near-total siege on the coastal territory, which has reduced the flow of foodstuffs, medicine, electricity, and water into the Palestinian territory into a trickle.
So far during the brutal military onslaught, the regime has killed at least 38,664 Gazans, most of them women, children, and adolescents. Another 89,097 Palestinians have sustained injuries.
Shortly after the war began, the General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for the implementation of an immediate "humanitarian truce" in the Palestinian territory.
The move came amid obstruction of passage of a similar resolution at the Security Council by the United States, the Israeli regime’s biggest ally and contributor of weapons of mass destruction.
Speaking to Bagheri, the President of the UNGA expressed gratitude to the Islamic Republic for playing a constructive role in the region, especially by contributing to regional security through expanding its relations with its neighbors.
Bagheri, leading a delegation, will attend a Security Council meeting on multilateralism on Tuesday and another on the issue of Palestine on Wednesday during his visit to New York.
Bagheri upon his arrival in New York said: "Both of these issues are important from various perspectives for the world, international relations, and the Islamic Republic," he said upon arriving in the city. "At this time, the Islamic Republic is working to utilize the Security Council's capabilities to defend the rights, positions, and territory of the Palestinian nation, and also to expose the crimes of the Zionist regime."
