Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remark in a meeting with MFS President Mégo Terzian in Tehran on Saturday.
While referring to the needs of people in some regions such as Yemen, Syria, Iraq as well as some African countries and their lack of access to health centers and the shortage of necessary facilities and medicine there, the Iranian diplomat voiced Tehran’s readiness to expand mutual cooperation with Doctors without Borders (MFS).
Accordingly, Iran’s Red Crescent Society (IRCS) and the Association of Muslim Doctors without Borders community will boost cooperation with the MFS in providing aid to crisis-ridden regions in the Middle East and Africa.
Terzian, for his part, briefed the Iranian diplomat on MFS’s medical and humanitarian programs in some of crisis-torn countries such Gaza, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan, asking for the experiences, specialists and other humanitarian aids from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Terzian also met with Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaedin Boroujerdi on Saturday, during which he appreciated Iran for its cooperation in MSF's humanitarian programs, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Doctors without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) founded in Paris in 1971 is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare.
Today, MSF is a worldwide movement of 24 associations, bound together as MSF International, based in Switzerland.