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Iran Ready for All-Out Cooperation with UN on Afghanistan

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined his country's preparedness to help the UN efforts to establish peace in Afghanistan.

News ID: 73827

Date: 19 November 2018 - 19:24

"The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to cooperate with the UN in all fields on Afghanistan and it strongly supports peace initiatives in the country," Zarif said in a meeting with Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tadamichi Yamamoto in Tehran on Monday afternoon.

Tadamichi, for his part, appreciated Iran for its supports for peace and stability in Afghanistan.

He also called on Iran to continue its constructive role by participating in the Geneva conference on Afghanistan in the future, to be hosted jointly by the UN and the Afghan government.

Earlier this month, Iran had also renewed Tehran's backing for peaceful settlement of problems of Afghanistan, expressing the hope that the Afghanistan Peace Conference would achieve the intended outcomes.

"We and other countries are trying to help Afghanistan and I hope the conference would achieve its objectives, given the viewpoints presenting in it," said Director General of the Iranian Foreign Ministry for West Asian Affairs Rasoul Eslami, representing Iran in Afghanistan Peace Conference in Moscow.

Second International Afghanistan Peace Conference attended by regional and global players as well as friendly countries of Kabul was held in Moscow on November 9.

Meeting of the “Moscow Format” on Afghanistan took place on November 9 in a closed format in Moscow in President Hotel. For the first time in an international meeting of this level was attended by the delegation of the political office of the Taliban in Doha.

Iran, Russia, Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, India, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan attended the event. The US was also represented by an expert from its embassy in Moscow.

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