Iranian Foreign Ministry Describes Warsaw Summit On Middle East As Failure

The final statement adopted by participants of the Warsaw summit on Middle East as well as the absence of representatives of key players in the region indicate that the meeting ended in a failure, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Friday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th February, 2019) The final statement adopted by participants of the Warsaw summit on middle East as well as the absence of representatives of key players in the region indicate that the meeting ended in a failure, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Friday.

On Wednesday and Thursday, the Polish capital hosted the global ministerial meeting on the Middle East. The conference addressed such issues as terrorism and extremism, missile proliferation, and security and stability in the Middle East. Participants of the summit agreed that Iran posed the greatest threat to peace and security in the region. Iran along with Russia and Turkey were not among the participants.

"How can a conference titled Peace and Security in the Middle East gain success when key regional players like Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Palestine are absent and significant countries such as China, Russia and many other leading European and non-European states are either not in attendance or represented at a very low level," Qassemi said, as quoted by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, adding that both the final statement and the "nervous" remarks made by the US officials at the summit about the European Union's refusal to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal were a sign of the summit's failure.

He accused the United States of sparking tensions between Middle East states.

"The US promotes insecurity, instability, poverty, war and extremism in the region through its unilateral pullout from the Iran nuclear deal and by violating all international laws and pursuing hypocritical policies and sponsoring terrorism," Qassemi noted.

The spokesman vowed to continue the fight for security and stability in the Middle East despite the United States' destabilizing efforts.

US President Donald Trump announced in May that the United States would withdraw from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, and reimpose its sanctions on Tehran that had been lifted under the agreement. The first package of restrictions came into force in August, while the second one followed in November.

In the wake of this decision, the other parties to the JCPOA � China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, the United Kingdom and the European Union � expressed their commitment to the accord and began working to create tools to bypass the sanctions.