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FM stresses need for speedy transfer of power to Iraqi nation

IRNA

Tehran, Dec 22, IRNA -- Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi here Monday 
stressed that Saddam Hussein capture has provided a better 
ground for occupying forces to leave Iraq and speedily transfer the 
right of self-determination to the Iraqi nation. 
He made the remark in his speech at the International 
Conference on `Islamic World, Challenges and Opportunities`, in 
which he underlined the necessity of trying the former dictator of 
Iraq for his tyranny, unlawfulness and crimes against the nations of 
Iraq, Iran and Kuwait. 
He also stressed the right of Palestinian nation to retrieve 
their rights specially the right of the displaced Palestinians 
to return to their native land. 
Believing that scientific achievements and technology were the 
shared asset of the human kind, he said all nations had equal 
rights to use them. 
He further noted that avoiding monopoly and removing 
the big gap between the advanced world and the less developed 
countries could serve as a new model in the international system. 
To this end, he added, Iran pursued using nuclear technology for 
peaceful purposes as a basic principle to enhance the scientific 
power of the Islamic states. 
Kharrazi also referred to co-existence and positive and 
constructive interactions in cultural, scientific and technological 
areas between Muslim states and the west to eradicate the real 
rootcauses of violence and terrorism under the supervision of the 
United Nations as a probable necessity. 
According to the foreign minister, such fundamental steps towards 
materializing constructive and positive interaction would be well 
taken by heeding to the most urgent demands of the Islamic world 
and trying to change the colonial viewpoints. 
He also cited respecting values, beliefs and the rightful 
demands of Muslim nations, avoidance from imposing Western values and 
manners on Islamic communities and trying to compensate for the 
damages inflicted on the Islamic World by the brutal raids 
of colonialism as among other steps in this regard. 
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