Tehran MP at Iranian parliament, who is chairing the Specialized and Executive Committees’ sessions as part of current 13th Session of Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) Conference underway in Tehran, said “the current conference in Tehran is held in a space that the big threat of Takfiri terrorism in the region has significantly faded away.”

Jalali hoped that with the financial and technical assistance of all Islamic countries to the liberated governments [of Iraq and Syria] from the threat of Takfiri Terrorism, this threat will go away forever, and the current conference in Tehran will help the countries who have fallen victim to ISIL terrorism.

The chairman of the Specialized and Executive Committees’ sessions of PUIC Conference in Tehran, which started today Saturday January 13, 2018, announced Iranian parliament’s readiness to work together with other members of the Union (PUIC) to strengthen the solidarity and unity among Islamic countries and joint efforts to resolve existing differences and challenges.

Referring to the recent US president Donald Trump’s move in declaring Al-Quds as the capital of Zionist regime, “Crises and challenges in the Islamic world should not lead us to ignore the issue of Palestine and forget its oppressed people,” adding “Palestine should remain the top priority of the agenda of the Union [PUIC] and Islamic countries, and in this regard, we are opposed to any attempts to sideline the issue.”

Following the regional meetings of the Asian Cultural Dialogues which were held previously in India, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan, the first international edition of the conference has kicked off in the Iranian capital, and will run through January 15 in three other cities, including Mashhad, Hamedan, and Babolsar in Mazandaran Province.

The conference is attended by 70 cultural and scientific figures from over 20 Asian countries, aimed at holding discussions on ‘cultural diversity’ and the ‘potential and capacity for interaction’.

Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mansour Gholami, Head of Istanbul University Board of Trustees Mustafa Aydin, Chancellor of Tehran University Mahmoud Nili, the Indonesian President Advisor Din Syamsuddin, as well as Mohammad Meshkateddin from Dahka Eastern University are the speakers of the conference.

The conference has been organized by the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO).