Iran Press/ Iran news: Mohammad Javad Zarif today in the inauguration ceremony of the Iranian Diplomatic Science Association stated that since the start of relations between nations and ethnicities, these communications, using a technique called diplomacy, have created a discipline for communicating and reducing costs and institutionalizing achievements between nations and groups.
"Some think that diplomacy is against military power while diplomacy is alongside military power," he added.
He said that any tool that was used to advance the goals ultimately failed to institutionalize the outcome without dialogue and some form of negotiation and diplomacy and noted that a diplomacy is a tool for all efforts and for reducing costs.
"In today's world, given the fact that the instrument of power has diversified and is conceptually the world is in transition, the instrument cannot be merely a material one," he continued.
The diplomat said that once military tool and war was the only tool of power, governments also had a monopoly on military tools.
He said: "Even the government's definition of the ability to use organized violence has been stated as one of the government's requirements."
Zarif said: "What diplomacy was used for, the diplomats turned them into realities, though in many cases diplomats could turn a definite defeat into a victory. Diplomacy has been highly disregarded."
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