From Dec. 23-25, Acting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (I.E.A.) Amir Khan Muttaqi visited Tehran, accompanied by a delegation, to attend the Dec. 23 High-Level Consultative Conference on Palestine, at which he was also an invited speaker. He subsequently met with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to discuss a number of bilateral issues with Afghanistan’s neighbor in which there are still problems to resolve, but also potential for expanded cooperation.
In his speech to the conference on Palestine, Foreign Minister Muttaqi pointed to the “paradox” that in a world where countries are sanctioned under the pretext “of the slightest violation of human rights,” there is at the same time “unremitting genocide of a nation by a regime that is breaching all human standards in its war [and] is not even dealt with, with the slightest objection!” The world “that purports human rights, human values, freedom and justice are mere spectators of this brutality.” Muttaqi underscored that the issue of Palestine “is not limited to the Palestinian people, rather it is an Arab, Islamic and ultimately human issue…. No free man who believes in justice and human values can watch with indifference the Zionist regime’s atrocities in Palestine!”
