In his address to the meeting of the General Assembly in New York on Thursday Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshrou said the peace advocated by the Charter of the United Nations is not a passive or imposed peace but a dynamic peace erected upon compromise and respect.
Khoshrou insisted that the charter does not envisage a peace with eradicating differences but it seeks to guarantee the right of life and development for all, despite all the differences.
"If we are after establishment of the peace in the minds of the people to counter the scourge of war, we have to change the mentality of those who want to solve any problem with violence and pressure, as well as the mindset of the terrorists and extremists," ascertained Iran’s envoy to the UN.
Khoshrou continued that a set of appropriate measures against poverty, discrimination, injustice and occupation would be the only way to keep discourse of peace alive so the seed of peace will solely flourish in the soil of justice, compromise, reciprocal respect, constructive interaction and dialogue among cultures and civilizations.
Change of the viewpoints was one of the major demands made by Iran’s Leader in his latest letter to the young people in the West, reminded the Iranian diplomat.
"The letter seeks to present the western youth a genuine viewpoint from inside the Muslim world on the fight against terrorism," affirmed Khoshrou and hailed President Rouhani’s initiative in proposing the first WAVE proposal (World Against Violence and Extremism) in 2013, and held that the regional developments of the last two years heighten the significance of the measure undertaken by Iran’s president.
To keep up with President Rouhani’s initiative, we have negotiated preliminary steps with other countries to put forward an improved version of the original draft to be adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). According to Iranian diplomat, the amends were made to incorporate new considerations vis-à-vis the developments of the last two years.
On September 24, 2013, Iran’s President Rouhani called for a World Against Violence and Extremism (WAVE) during his speech at the 68th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. On December 5, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution that approved President Rouhani’s WAVE proposal.
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