23.11.15
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the Middle East region is passing from an old political and security order to a new one with many pervious problems including interference of extra-regional powers still unchanged.
Amir-Abdollahian who is in Montreux, Switzerland to deliver a speech at the 8th edition of World Policy Conference (WPC) said such meddlings which are often in the form of military and hardware intervention have perplexed the situation in West Asia.
In the current transitory period, Middle East needs a new security order and the password for an efficient new order in the region is paying attention to the legitimate demands of the people. One of the best ways to help settle the problems in Middle East is strengthening regional convergence at state and popular levels, he said in his speech themed Iran and West Asia Crises.
Referring to the menace of terrorism in the region, the Iranian high-ranking diplomat said, Acts of terror by Daesh confirm that the worlds main danger happens when terrorist organizations transform to terrorist states.
To deal with the major problem of terrorism requires software solutions including reducing the number of alienated citizens, ending occupation, finding poverty reduction ways, and improving the political, social and economic infrastructures in the Middle East, he added.
He introduced Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya as the centers of crisis in West Asia and as the outcome of interventionist behaviors instead of responsible acts toward domestic issues of the countries.
Tehran believes that the regional crises cannot be settled by military options, he added, There is no solution to political challenges except the political procedure.
Amir-Abdollahian also criticized the countries behind the recent non-binding UN General Assembly resolution on the situation of human rights in Syria and said its sponsors are angry that terrorists have failed in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.