Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in New York where they have arrived to attend a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East.
According to our UN correspondent, Amir-Abdollahian and Lavrov discussed regional, international and bilateral issues on Monday evening local time.
The top Iranian diplomat with a high-level delegation arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York where he was received and welcomed by Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Zahra Ershadi, Deputy Representative of Iran at the UN.
This is Amir-Abdollahian’s third visit to New York this year. His first trip was with President Ebrahim Raisi to participate the United Nations General Assembly and the second time he traveled to the UN headquarters for an emergency General Assembly meeting.
Other than attending the UN Security Council meeting for the first time on Tuesday, Amir-Abdollahian is scheduled to hold meetings with his counterparts and UN officials.
Before his departure for New York, Iran’s foreign minister wrote a letter addressing to the UN Secretary General over the latest Israeli assassination of five Iranian military advisors in Damascus who were on the official invitation of the Syrian government.
“The Israeli regime must bear the consequences of its terroristic and other actions against Iranian military advisors in Syria,” the letter mentioned.
France, which is the permanent member of the Security Council and holds the rotating presidency of the council, has invited foreign ministers of Iran and other countries to assess the situation in West Asia, especially the Gaza war.
In December, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution with an overwhelming 153 votes which called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.
Despite international pressure, the UN Security Council, with five permanent members and 10 non-permanent members, has not been able to stop the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip or establish a ceasefire there as the US has vetoed several such resolutions in favor of Israel. Washington and its western allies also keep backing Israel with money and weapons and turn and blind eye to bloodshed of Palestinians in Gaza, IRNA news agency writes.
