The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran is hosting the international meeting, which is being held at the level of deputy ministers. In the Saturday meeting, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, deputy ministers, ambassadors, special representatives, and advisors to the president of the country take part.
The Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations was formed by 19 countries with the aim of preserving, upgrading, and defending the credibility of the UN Charter.
The member states of the group comprise Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, Laos, Nicaragua, Palestine, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
The group plans to promote international law, the UN Charter, and coordination concerning joint initiatives to strengthen respect for the objectives and principles of the UN Charter as well as values such as dialogue, tolerance, solidarity, and peaceful coexistence among nations.
While the founders of the group honor achievements of the United Nations in its 70 years of activation in terms of peace, security, and international cooperation in particular in human rights, decolonization, sustainable economy and social development, uprooting of diseases, and disarmament, it points out to incapability of the UN in materialization of the objectives and principles of the Charter and effective confrontation in the face of emerging challenges.
In this regard, certain world powers’ attempts in resorting to unilateralism in order to pursue their own political agenda has been one of the main issues, which led to the weakening of the UN Charter and multilateralism.
The member states underline the need for respecting equality among nations, national sovereignty, political independence, territorial integrity, and non-intervention in the internal affairs of countries, as well as prevention from threatening or resorting to force against other states, and peaceful resolution of international disputes.
The meeting in Tehran follows up some main objectives such as reviewing recent developments in the international arena, stressing the need for full implementation of principles and goals of the UN Charter, upgrading multilateralism and international cooperation, as well as ruling out unilateralism and studying strategies to stand against unilateral coercive measures such as sanctions.
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon