Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has traveled to Uganda to attend a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which he described a platform for independent voices and a venue which the international community now attaches great significance to its decisions.
Mokhber arrived at Uganda’s Entebbe airport on Saturday morning to attend the 19th NAM summit in capital Kampala where he thanked Ugandan authorities for hosting the event and highlighted the great capacities of the Non-Aligned Movement.
The summit is held as a non-aligned nation, South Africa, has hauled Israel before the International Criminal Court in the Hague on charge of committing genocide in Gaza and demanded that the UN’s top court order an emergency ceasefire.
The war, now in its 106th day, has marked a turning point in the colonial relationship between Western philosophy and the rest of the world, where the US and Europeans have stood by and let Israel massacre Palestinians on a daily basis.
Addressing the summit, Mokhber said there is need to create a new peace-oriented order with the slogan “security for all, insecurity for no one”.
Mokhber rejected unilateralism and imperialism, but endorsed resistance against oppression, saying any action taken by the Palestinians to resist by any possible means against occupation is their inherent right.
He said that “attempts by the Zionist regime and its Western supporters to project this legitimate struggle as a terrorist act lack legal authority and is a trick and deception”.
He called on NAM states to support the end of the Israeli occupation, the return of refugees and a referendum to create a stable and just peace in Palestine and to condemn and stop the killing of the people of Gaza by the Zionist regime.
Mokhber also said the unilateral sanctions of the US and some other countries are a clear example of economic terrorism. He said the independent and free nations of the world do not accept force, imposition and humiliation.
Upon arrival in Kampala, Mokhber stated that NAM member states can wield enormous influence on international developments, particularly in terms of politics and economy.
“The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) projects the voices of world’s independent nations. Nowadays, world powers devote great attention to the decisions taken and policies adopted at alliances formed among developing countries,” he said.
