MINSK, 27 June (BelTA) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed gratitude to the EAEU member states for support of Iran during his video address to the participants of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council summit on 27 June, BelTA has learned.
Aleksandr Lukashenko said that the Iranian president was initially expected to attend the EAEU summit - for the first time as a representative of the observer state to the EAEU. However, due to certain circumstances, he was unable to fly to Minsk. Therefore, he addressed the summit via a video link.
“Recent attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities under IAEA control violated, in the most dangerous way, the international law, including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the 1949 Geneva Conventions. I will not even talk about the feelings that such actions cause in Belarus, the country most affected by the Chernobyl accident. Then radioactive fallout reached even the UK, Germany and Sweden. They, especially the country that has committed such an act, probably, think they are safe from this,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
In turn, Masoud Pezeshkian expressed regret that due to current events he could not attend the Minsk summit in person. According to him, this happened due to armed attacks by Israel, which were aimed, among other things, at peaceful nuclear facilities under IAEA control. The Iranian president called it a gross violation of all international rules, which deals an irreparable blow to the status of the nuclear non-proliferation regime. He noted that civilians were killed and wounded as a result of the attack on residential areas, public infrastructure, medical centers. The Iranian armed forces defended the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. If this aggression went unanswered, it could lead to a full-scale and uncontrolled war in the region, Masoud Pezeshkian said.
“I consider it my duty to thank all the countries that responsibly condemned this blatant aggression. “Today’s EAEU summit also provides an excellent opportunity to convey to the whole world the collective position of the member states resolutely condemning this aggression and the regional and global threats associated with it,” he said.
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