Salehi made the request during a speech at a ceremony in Tehran on Sunday that was held to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the kidnapping incident.
The families of the abducted diplomats and a number of foreign ambassadors based in Tehran attended the ceremony.
Four Iranian nationals, chargé d’affaires Mohsen Mousavi, military attaché of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmad Motevasellian, Taqi Rastegar Moqaddam, a diplomat from the embassy, and Kazem Akhavan, a reporter and photographer from the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), were captured by a Phalangist militia while traveling to southern Lebanon in 1982, then handed over to the Zionist regime and transferred to a prison in occupied Palestine.
During his speech, Salehi said, “Considering the fact that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his readiness to play a more active role in the United Nations to determine the situation of abducted Iranian diplomats, I call on him to make redoubled efforts to investigate the situation of these people through establishing a special committee.”
On the sidelines of the meeting, Salehi also told reporters, “We have requested Lebanon to set up a special committee to pursue the issue. And we also plan to form a legal committee in Lebanon” comprising Lebanese jurists so that a legal dossier could be prepared in this regard.
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