Amirabdollahian made the comment on Saturday at a meeting by foreign ministers of the member states of the Non-Aligned Movement, which was held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
He said that the Palestinian people, in the wake of silence by the international community, are facing more than ever inhumane conditions caused by the Israeli occupation and the regime’s aggression and expansionism.
The top Iranian diplomat blamed the apartheid Zionist regime for increasingly violating the basic rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to live and work.
He also criticized the regime for expanding its settlements on occupied Palestinian land, saying that the Palestinians are incarcerated and forced to migrate, while their lands are confiscated and their farmland are destroyed.
Amirabdollahian referred to growing condemnation of the Israeli regime by key international human rights organizations in recent years, which have described Israel as an apartheid regime.
He called on the Non-Aligned Movement to use its diplomatic capacities to help stop the inhumane measures and crimes by the occupying Israeli regime against the Palestinian people.
The Iranian foreign minister said that today the Palestinian youth are not hopeful about initiatives presented by certain countries and international organizations to help resolve the conflict with the Zionist regime.
That’s because, he added, all of those initiatives have reached a deadlock since they have failed to address the root cause of the crisis.
Amirabdollahian explained that Iran, back in November 1, 2019, presented its own initiative to the United Nations, which called for a national referendum in Palestine.
He said Iran believes that the democratic solution will help resolve the issue of the occupation and the long-running dispute in the West Asia region, and that the real residents of Palestine, including Muslims, Christians and Jews, can decide their fate and determine their government.
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