Tehran Offers to Host Anti-Violence Conference

Iran offered to host an international conference on a UN resolution which was recently adopted based on President Hassan Rouhani’s initiative World against Violence and Extremism (WAVE) proposal.
“As the flag-bearer and architect of the resolution on fighting extremism in the world, which has been approved with a global consensus at the United Nations General Assembly, Iran offers to hold an international conference in this regard in Tehran,” Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Mohammad Khazayee said on Thursday.

The Iranian diplomat emphasized that violent extremism would have destructive ramifications for the international law and order and would harm nations’ historical, national and cultural identity.

“The Tehran conference can serve as support for the UN General Assembly’s resolution and can examine the dimensions and consequences of violence and extremism and differentiate between extremist and violent groups on the one hand and those groups which rise up to defend their homeland and national independence and to oppose foreign aggression on the other,” Khazayee said.

He noted that extremism has negative consequences on economic development and will increase poverty and the number of refugees as can be witnessed in the case of the current situation in Syria.

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to approve President Rouhani’s proposal, which call on all nations across the globe to denounce violence and extremism.

Rouhani made the proposal in an address to the UN Disarmament Conference in New York on September 25.