Iran asks for immediate termination of unjustified anti-Syrian sanctions

NEW YORK - Iran has asked for immediate and unconditional termination of unjustified anti-Syrian sanctions, following the devastating quakes early last month.

Iran's permanent ambassador to the UN, Amir-Saeed Iravani also asked for increase of humanitarian aids to alleviate the prevailing humanitarian catastrophe there.

"The recent devastating quake has further intensified the previously existing humanitarian crisis in Syria and turned it into a human catastrophe, as all infrastructures in that country have been destroyed there and this affects the people's capability to get access to minimum living needs,” Islamic republic news agency (IRNA) reported he said at the UN Security Council Meeting on Syria on Tuesday.

The senior Iranian diplomat at the UN added that the terrible conditions of the quake victims in Syria necessitate increased humanitarian aids from a neutral stand and quite unbiassed, free from politicising the issue or conditioning the termination of the sanctions, to make sure that the humanitarian aids will reach the people in need of them speedily.

Iravani said that Iran was among the first countries that forwarded its humanitarian aids to both Syria and Turkiye with its full capacities. - BERNAMA