According to IRNA's foreign policy group, Amirabdollahian left for New York late on Wednesday (April 29) to attend a high-level meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the situation in West Asia.
The visit comes as the 15-member council is due to vote on Friday on a draft resolution that recommends to the 193-member General Assembly that the State of Palestine be admitted as full member at the United Nations.
A council resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the U.S., Britain, France, Russia or China to pass. But the US, a key backer of the Zionist regime is likely to use, as usual, its veto against the move.
Council member Algeria, which put forward the draft resolution, had requested a vote for Thursday afternoon to coincide with a Security Council meeting on the Middle East, which is expected to be attended by several ministers.
Amirabdollahian is set to deliver a speech at the Security Council meeting and hold several one-on-one meetings and news briefings.
The top Iranian diplomat first went to Istanbul and after visiting the Iranian Consulate General there, he left for New York.
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